Maria Semple Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.
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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
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Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
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We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.