Maria Semple Quotes
Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.
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I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.
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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
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Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
