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Maria Semple Quotes

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Reality Drama Kind Grounded

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.

Old Years Handle Puberty Emotionally

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Day Travel I Am People Talking Long

I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.

Family Home Man I Am Me Chair

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Maximilian Schell

Woman You Meeting Go Know Something

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Men Detail Eye Talk Like Other

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

Steve Jurvetson

Science Slow More Like Version Lab

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Differences Way Similarities Film TV

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

Miami Gym Lost Three Up Where

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Work Best Football Think Place

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

Christopher Poole

Time Tree Culture People Magic You

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

Anthony Michael Hall

Funny Doing Remember Television Kid

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.

Life Faith Community Freedom People

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