Maria Semple Quotes
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'
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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
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'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
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The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...
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'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
