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Maria Semple Quotes

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

Maria Semple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Time Myself Story Interesting Way

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

Jena Malone

You Breathe Act Terrible Still Even

I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

Andrew Haigh

Life Alone My Life Felt Lot

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

Angela Merkel

Home Knowledge Peace People You Go

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Child Learn Know Will First Need

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

John Piper

Life God You Authority Over Give

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

Amanda Donohoe

Good Law Group Big Just One Just

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Steven T. Katz

Bank Poet West Jews England About

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Tony Hale

Family Path Appreciation Me Choose

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Roy Rogers

Job Tough You Borrow Steal Really

I train in the cage all the time. I have my own cage in my gym.

Mirko Cro Cop

Time Gym Train My Own Cage Own

I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

Liz Torres

Good Friend Never Give Up Heart Lose

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

Loudon Wainwright III

Business Great People Ego Think You