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.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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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.
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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.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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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.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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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.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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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.
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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.
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I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do - meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them.
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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.
