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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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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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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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.
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My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
