Maria Semple Quotes
When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I sometimes don't wash my hair for two weeks. That's pretty disgusting. It's short, so sometimes it's easier to just wet it.
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When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.
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I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
