Maria Semple Quotes

Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.

Maria Semple

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• 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.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Buddhist

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Why
  • Will
  • Debt

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Me
  • Film
  • Level

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

  

  Jack Garratt

• Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Good
  • Writing

• Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Awake

• When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.

  

  Charlamagne Tha God
  • People
  • Real
  • Blessed

• Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing