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.Maria Semple
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust -
Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
Kacey Musgraves -
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.
Lana Del Rey -
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.
Samuel Chase -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
Marat Safin
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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?'
Tammy Duckworth -
America faces a new race that has awakened.
E. Franklin Frazier -
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.
Yuna -
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross -
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.
Yancy Butler -
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
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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.
Larry the Cable Guy -
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse -
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue -
All my movies are achingly personal.
Quentin Tarantino -
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken -
Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
Tatjana Patitz
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Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.
Tom Hanks -
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn -
The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
Harold Ramis -
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
Colin Quinn -
When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
Maria Semple