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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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
Adam Lambert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
Oscar Levant
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When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
David Brock
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People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you.
Arabella Pollen
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
Baruch Spinoza
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
Maria Semple