Sue Grafton Quotes
Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
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Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
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When in doubt, make funny faces.
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The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
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I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
