Maria Semple Quotes
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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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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I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
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Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.
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On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.
