Sue Grafton Quotes

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

• People
• Fear
• Energy
• Passion
• Dark
• Darkness
• Busy

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
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• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
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• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Culture
  • Play
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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
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• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Light

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Golf
  • Shoes
  • Point

• I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Really
  • Admit
  • Hubble

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Live
  • Guy
  • You

• Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Never
  • Judge
  • Clothes

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nature

• It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Different
  • Important
  • Character

• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Rock
  • Dance
  • Answers

• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • People
  • Fear
  • Energy