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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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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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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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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When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
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I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
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I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.
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The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
