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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Advertising

• 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.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• 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.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Proud

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• 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.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Want
  • Start
  • Aim

• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
  • Sobriety

• Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Game
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Like
  • Things
  • Would

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Events
  • Share
  • Destroy

• 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.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Nature
  • Interesting
  • Common

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Mood

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Direct

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

  

  Jan Brett
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I'm at the stage in my pregnancy where I don't feel pregnant. You feel very, 'Oh yeah, I'm pregnant,' because you're over the morning sickness and it's not too uncomfortable. It's fun.

  

  Kelly Stables
  • Fun
  • Morning
  • Pregnancy

• When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Work
  • She
  • Model

• I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

  

  Maria Semple
  • People
  • Strong

• ... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Fun
  • Strong
  • Feeling