Mona Simpson Quotes

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Jennie Finch

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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

John Frusciante

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I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

Stephen Cole

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I'm just a country boy from north Georgia, and I have three children and a wonderful wife. And when I look at my three children, who are 8, 11, and 12, and they really represent the faces and the future of the children all across my congressional district, and what the Tea Party stands for is not extremism; it's about their future.

Tom Graves

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The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

Rob Simmons

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The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ludwig Borne

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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

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The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

Donna Shalala

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There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

Chuck Feeney

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Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

Chuck Norris

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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Thornton Wilder

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Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Thomas Hooker

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