Maria Semple Quotes
If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.
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I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.
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I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
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A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
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To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.
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Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.
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If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.
