Maria Semple Quotes
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.Maria Semple
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling -
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson -
I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
Washed Out -
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Barbara Jordan
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
Randy Houser -
I'm a man of my word.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
Zach Braff -
I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
Nathan Fielder -
I think there's a connection with what you wear. If you don't feel good about what you're wearing, you aren't going to feel confident, and you aren't going to be able to concentrate.
Venus Williams -
I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
Gaby Hoffmann
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
Walter Payton -
Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
Randy Pausch -
I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?
Edie Sedgwick -
Mrs. Robbins asked: 'If I am not for myself, who then is for me?'-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.
Randall Jarrell -
For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.
Kamal Haasan -
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz -
Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.' Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
John Adams -
Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.
Aaron Watson -
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
Sister Parish -
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
Maria Semple