Maria Semple Quotes
Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I'm not radical.
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Nick Hornby's a genius.
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Lots of entrepreneurs don't want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don't want to be responsible to a board, or don't want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly.
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There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
