Maria Semple Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
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The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.
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My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
