Sue Grafton Quotes
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I know all the critics.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
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Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
