Maria Semple Quotes

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

Maria Semple

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Kind
  • Voice
  • Born

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • History
  • Will
  • Accept

• I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Working
  • Just
  • Retire

• I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Books
  • Read
  • Buy

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Day
  • Lies

• One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Slavery

• Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Blue

• In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Nature

• The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Today
  • Sex

• When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Fifty
  • Frame Of Mind

• If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Food
  • Ice

• If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

  

  William Blum
  • Love
  • Lost
  • Blind

• I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

  

  Deny King
  • Down
  • Mountains
  • Scenery

• My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

  

  Maria Semple