Maria Semple Quotes

One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

Maria Semple

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GrowthCharacterWeekFindNever

I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

MondayMeGoWednesdayOutGuy

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Maya Angelou

MindThinkSayFictionHappened

What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

John Mackey

HealthGovernmentPeopleCapitalism

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Robert Quine

MeRock And RollRockRollJustHit

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

Anna Neagle

WinterRainSunFlowersYearLong

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

Matt Dillon

LoveLove IsMessyCleanReal

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Robert Downey, Jr.

LifeYourselfParentsLookingLook

During three decades' worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars.

Ronna McDaniel

WorthThreeDemocratsHarassment

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Russell Baker

BusinessPoliticsJournalismMore

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

FutureHopeMoreReligionsSeem

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

Miguel Sapochnik

MeLostMoviesEntertainmentWay

I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.

Mike McCready

LifeFightPeopleMy LifeInsurance

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