Maria Semple Quotes

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

Maria Semple

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FreedomMeStoryCalendarGoWill

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Joel Hodgson

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A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Max Lucado

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

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I don't like any sort of film. I hate films.

Sid Vicious

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Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

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We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

Mary Steenburgen

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It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

Mick Rock

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Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Michael Leunig

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When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

Judith Butler

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I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Donna Mills

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The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

Bob Etheridge

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