Maria Semple Quotes
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.Maria Semple
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif -
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe -
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
Madchen Amick -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
Zach Woods -
It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres -
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Irwin Shaw -
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
Rachel Nichols -
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill -
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion -
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael -
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
Sam Heughan -
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
Barbara Mikulski
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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis -
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
Randy Newman -
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.
E. B. White -
I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
Bibi Bourelly -
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
Maria Semple