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Maria Semple Quotes

It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.

Maria Semple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great School People Me Go Why

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

Jesmyn Ward

Time Woman Me Book Color Think

Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Good Baseball Short Long Cards Way

New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.

Andrew Rosenthal

Grateful City Budget Trying Ice New

Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

Ana Ivanovic

Makeup Too Much Dressed Go Never Up

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

Stewart Lee

Fire People Me Interesting Media Up

Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home.

Steve Mollenkopf

Father Home Discipline School Get

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

Faith Culture Flying Doing Out Up

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Ronald Reagan

Women Today Courage Men World Free

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Mike Singletary

Decision You Want Understand Make

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

Johnny Iuzzini

Heart Criticism Learn You Move On

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Cory Booker

Family Spiritual People City Roots

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Brian Eno

Strong Feedback Pop Loop Very