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 do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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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There's no regrets for me.
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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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In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
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Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
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One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
