Maria Semple Quotes
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
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We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.
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With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.
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As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
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On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.
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People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Cleavage Sister: 'What do you feel about erotic art?'Morrissey:'I don't know much about rotting art?'Cleavage Sister: 'What about erotic music?'Morrissey:'I know a great deal about rotting music.'
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Every disadvantage has its advantage.
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The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.
