Sue Grafton Quotes
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
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A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
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I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
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A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
Charles B. Rangel -
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.
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I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.
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I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.
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Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
