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Maria Semple Quotes

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Together Hands Something About

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

School City Choice Situation Want

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Melissa Etheridge

I Am Song Personal Experiences Get

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

History Building Impact Political

When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?'

Home Children Me Think You Want

When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Time Me Game Years Out Senior

As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

Tristram Stuart

Growth Words Book Revolution Forest

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Shirley MacLaine

Good Job You More Director Take

I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.

Character Myself You Find I Can Try

I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.

Love Food Wife Looking Chocolate

People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

Good People World Advice View Doing

I have made it a point to reach out to the masses personally - so I am there as a symbol for the masses.

I Am Reach Out Point Masses Made

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Christopher Hitchens

Time Death Feeling More Up My Time

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