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Simon Rich Quotes

Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1984

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Work Help I Can Write Leave Get

AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.

Ride Roller Coaster Lucky Part Both

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Music You Important Kind Special

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

Andrew Rosenthal

Great Day Effort View Plan Finding

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

Looking Someone Remember Company Up

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

John Lanchester

Me Economics Questions Moral More

I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate.

Work Job Trouble Run Understand

Conan O'Brien's the best. I'm glad he's in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote 'Human Giant,' and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He's also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.

Time Best Feet Want Tall Human

In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.

Work People Writing Story Out Leave

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

Friend New York Book Think American

I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.

Love Heart Together Night Back She

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

Music Voice Think White Rock Hear

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Passion Respect People Law Judge

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