Maria Semple Quotes
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Malcolm Dresden: Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone.' His fingers squeezed me tight. 'But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.'
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
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I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
