Maria Semple Quotes

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Funny
  • Awards
  • Host

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • You
  • Storytelling
  • Muscles

• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

  

  John Roos
  • Society
  • Free

• My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Culture

• To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

  

  Christo
  • Freedom

• We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Environment

• We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Service
  • Caring
  • Models

• I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

  

  Maria Semple
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