Sue Grafton Quotes
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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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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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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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 started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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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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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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Our songs all carry the same way.
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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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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
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What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
