Maria Semple Quotes
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Making music is fantastic.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
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I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.
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The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
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It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
