Maria Semple Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.
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Happiness is only real when shared.
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I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone
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I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
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I don't really know why I went to law school.
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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
