Maria Semple Quotes
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
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My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
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My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
