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Maria Semple Quotes

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 21, 1964

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Me First Painful Well Sell Shocking

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Cute Myself Little Almost General

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

Work Good Best Green You Fast

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

Life Village More Strikes Affected

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

Andrew Rosenthal

Work World Action Be Prepared New

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Feel You Lose Special Something

I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.

Cat Dizzy After Had

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

Women Men Expectations Long Way Yes

I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region.

Down Act Legislation Activity Like

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Love Live Money I Can Without

I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.

Home Day Mind Thinking Process Back

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

Life Friend Mother New York My Life

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.

Good People Good Things American See

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