Sue Grafton Quotes
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women – those men were all very used to working with women.
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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Physical training is mental warfare!
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
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You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
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Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
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My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
