Sue Grafton Quotes

There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

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• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
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• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
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• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
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• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
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• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
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  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
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• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • You
  • Out
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• You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

  

  Billy Koch

• There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

  

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• You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  

  Marina Abramovic
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  • Friends
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• I grew up around guitar players.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Up

• Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

  

  Amy Ray
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• I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

  

  Phil Mickelson
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  • Fall

• A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

  

  Rod Stewart
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  • Song

• Make fair agreements and stick to them.

  

  Confucius
  • Fair
  • Stick
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• There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Children
  • Book
  • Week