Sue Grafton Quotes
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.
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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
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There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to resolve the tension between their split identities.
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I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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I've always idolized Jay-Z He's one of my favorite persons, even before I knew him personally.
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When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.
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I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
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I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
