Maria Semple Quotes
I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
