Sue Grafton Quotes

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Sue Grafton

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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Balance

• Jefferson said the states are the laboratories of democracy. But the problem is, nobody reads the lab reports. We've got every state trying to reinvent everything. I was struck even more so after this trip how little exchange there is among states that are coping with exactly the same issues.

  

  Angus King
  • Trying
  • Democracy

• The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Frustration

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• 'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Business

• When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

  

  James Bobin
  • Children
  • Trying

• Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

  

  Om Malik
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Past

• I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

  

  James Gray
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Wall

• I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Giving
  • Said

• One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Diseases

• A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Good

• As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

  

  Jim Coleman

• You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Trying
  • Simple