Maria Semple Quotes
I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.
Quotes to Explore
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
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I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.
