Maria Semple Quotes

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

Maria Semple

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PeopleMeIdeasThinkTelevision

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

Jessica Alba

HomeParentsMeYoungDrinkGoing

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Andre Leon Talley

LoveDressPeopleFashionNever

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

Angela Kinsey

MusicGreatArtSchoolTheatreUp

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

Michael Gambon

FeelYearWrongPlayNeedPlanned

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

Amy Sedaris

FunPeopleLookDifferentWhoThem

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

Rodney Crowell

LoveLivePastLove IsMagicYou

I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.

Ron Cephas Jones

PeopleFriendsCancerDealingDied

I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice.

Mary Gauthier

LifeFamilyLoveFaithHopePower

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

Joseph Brodsky

YouPerfectOppressionSystemCracks

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

TimeSometimesToolIndispensable

I've always done whatever I felt like, even if it was really inadvisable.

Jon Cryer

DoneAlwaysWhateverLikeEvenFelt

2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.

Chris Larsen

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