Sue Grafton Quotes
The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.
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I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
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The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
