Maira Kalman Quotes
I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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You have to be yourself.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
