Sue Grafton Quotes
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
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Jane Austen is very amusing.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff.
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The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.
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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
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I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.
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Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it.
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
