Mona Simpson Quotes
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
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I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
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I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
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The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
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Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
