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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Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'
Debbie Reynolds
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I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'
Dave Brat
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere
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Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.
Edmund Clowney
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Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
Maria Semple