Father Quote by Maria Semple Download Open image “My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.” — Maria Semple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Father Screenwriter Grew Grew World Kind Parenting Screenwriter Screenwriter Kind Up World
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. — John Sayles Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting. — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film. — Derek Magyar Copy Share Image
My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny… — Charlie McDowell Copy Share Image
“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Here’s something about Mom: she’s bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn’t refill her water after she’s asked three… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Parking in Seattle is an eight-step process. Step one, find a place to park (gooood luuuuck!). Step two, back into the angled parking space… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Eleanor's heart giggled with mad abundance: so much to share, so much goodwill, so many notes to compare, so many ways to help and… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago I saw a documentary on the siege of that Moscow theater. After just forty-eight hours of the terrorists confining the hostages… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker,… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
