Sue Grafton Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
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There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.
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Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
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My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
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If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'
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Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
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How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
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Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
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I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
