Maria Semple Quotes
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
