Maria Semple Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.
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What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.
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I'm actually a pretty shy person in real life with new people.
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Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
