Mona Simpson Quotes

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1957

Topics

CommunityPoliticsLookingBetter

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

Jim Woodring

HiddenHardSameEverythingThings

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

Amy Sedaris

HatePeoplePrettyPlayingSane

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

Steve Valentine

PassionKindLegendsKidHoldBig

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

Ronnie Wood

FamilyWaterMeRestBackBorn

The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.

Mike Pence

WorldFreeChoicePrivacyVoteAct

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Milan Kundera

TruthMeanPreachDiscoverMeans

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

Delta Burke

SchoolNew YorkTheatreThoughtLook

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

Deborah Cox

LifeLoveStrugglePeopleConflict

That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.

Ashton Eaton

PeopleGoldGoalGoWantAfter

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

Alistair Brownlee

DoctorMedicineBecomeStudyingDid

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro''s release.

Pooja Hegde

I AmAcceptContractReleaseBound

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

Thomas Mallon

WorkDayEvery DayWayTryMore

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