Mona Simpson I’m a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that’s not life. – Mona Simpson Believer Quotes Fiction Quotes Life Quotes Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother. We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, ‘Oh, it’s no one’s fault.’
Noah Schnapp My parents always told me about VHS tapes. And the Walkman, everyone had those. I had never even seen one until I got onto ‘Stranger Things.’ – Noah Schnapp
Maya Wiley The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people. – Maya Wiley
Ayaan Hirsi Ali I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Fred Tomaselli There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it’s really rooted in an American experience – transcendentalism, ’60s counterculture, punk rock. – Fred Tomaselli
Bryce Dessner As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past. – Bryce Dessner
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