Mona Simpson Quotes

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherVacationSchoolParentsMe

It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.

John Glen

TimeSunshineBestDayWeatherYou

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Robert Harris

WorldThinkFinancialSomethingWell

Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

Anna Paquin

LifeAgeFocusJobPeopleAmazing

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

CultureNew YorkPeopleNewLondon

Working with Thug and working with Future feels the same. They don't sound like each other, but their creative process and their level of talent is the same. Anybody who knows both of them would agree.

Metro Boomin

FutureCreativeTalentProcessThug

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

John Ruskin

RichWishLongPoorI WishRight

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Amy Purdy

GirlSadMyselfPeopleMeKnow

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

Amy Sherald

WorkHard WorkYouArtistMeanHard

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Steve Guttenberg

LifeYouBadMatterAlwaysTurn

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Stockard Channing

GoodAgePeopleDownPersonWay

If you are feeling good, you look good, you are confident about yourself, you are going to go out there, and you will rock it.

Michelle Carter

GoodYourselfConfidentYouLookGo

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.

Mike McCarthy

CultureFocusDayYouGoBuild

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