Maria Semple Quotes
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
Quotes to Explore
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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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 had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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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 am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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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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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.
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My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
