Maria Semple Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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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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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
