Best quotes by Maria Semple on People
Checkout quotes by Maria Semple on People
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‟ I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
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‟ I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
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‟ It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
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‟ 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.
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‟ I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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‟ 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.
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