Sue Grafton Quotes
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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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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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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov -
The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
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It was a nice change of pace to come to work, put on a nice suit and stay clean all day.
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We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
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If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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I have a real problem giving up that kind of control. You know, my mother helps me.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'
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In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
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When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.
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I'm a strong person. I'm a warrior and I know what is inside of me.
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Grief is as contagious as a yawn.
