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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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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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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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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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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I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
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I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
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Form and content must never apologize for each other.
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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.
