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Maria Semple Quotes

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Maria Semple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time People You Back Down Sitting

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

Jim Leach

Change History Acceleration Hallmark

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Andrew Young

Respect You Differences Place Out

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

Ann Romney

Experience Living Conservative Been

I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.

Mike McCready

Keep Going Me Challenges Comfort Zone

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

Josh Tillman

Experience Think Vanity Legitimate

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

Jared Sparks

Majority Still General Disposal

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Want Own Being Like Again Twenties

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Don Winslow

Morning Grateful You Know Mean Up

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Dick Cavett

Comedy Doing Years Club Painful Set

There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

Chellie Pingree

Great Time Value People Brain Soup

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

Brigitte Macron

Girl Very Often Detention

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Arabella Weir

Life Father Whom Fact Expected Were