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Maria Semple Quotes

I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art People Painful Something Relate

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Organization America Born Committee

You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

Funny Girl Cool Saying Black You

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Jeffrey Gitomer

You Say Sales Perceive How

Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you're supposed to know. It can't be cheated, bent, or bargained with.

Day Black Care End Of The Day End

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Tristram Stuart

Numbers Animals Deer Wild Eat Fail

Writing only leads to more writing.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Communication Writing More Only

I can't and won't be defeated at Goodison Park, the greatest stadium in the world.

World Defeated Park Stadium Greatest

How goodness heightens beauty!

Beauty Goodness How Heightens

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Love Courage Risk Others Boundaries

One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

Bobby Schilling

Future Son Focus Wife Me Looking

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Life Education Eyes Game Goal

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

Beauty Being Unrealistic

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