Maria Semple Quotes

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

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• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• I want to make smart choices.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Smart

• I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Thinking
  • Walking
  • Preparation

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Black
  • Day

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Know
  • Model
  • Write

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Power
  • Understand
  • Irony

• I am not famous at all.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Famous

• Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop

• The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

  

  Crystal Chappell
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Choices

• But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Pretty
  • Air

• There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Book

• I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.

  

  Claudia Black
  • People
  • Job

• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

  

  Ellen Bass
  • People
  • Nature
  • Courage

• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • People
  • Different
  • Song

• If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

  

  Maria Semple