Maria Semple Quotes

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

Maria Semple

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Drama
  • Involved
  • Escape

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Know
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Hair
  • Whatever
  • Wax

• You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Different
  • Words
  • Same

• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Life
  • History
  • Woman

• Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

  

  Camila Alves
  • First
  • Watch
  • Steak

• I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Woman

• When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Color

• I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Abuse

• I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Think

• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

  

  Oscar Levant

• Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,Ah, only one day away from your arms;I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?And I can never, never, never … go home again.

  

  Hal David
  • Home
  • Hate

• ...in October 1866 I broke out as a lecturer, and from that day to this I have always been able to gain my living without doing any work; for the writing of books and magazine matter was always play, not work. I enjoyed it; it was merely billiards to me.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • Writing
  • October

• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Destination

• After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

  

  Brady Corbet
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

  

  Maria Semple