Sue Grafton Quotes
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
-
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
-
I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
-
Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
-
My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
-
In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
-
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
-
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.
-
A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
-
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
-
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
-
The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
-
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
-
Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met), could have more.
-
I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.
-
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
-
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
-
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
