Sue Grafton Quotes
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
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America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!
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Who are you?" because even now, she couldn't let her questions go. "What are you?" That face that wasn't a face smiled. It was the most terrible thing she'd ever see, ever. "Magnus" he said. "I'm the end.
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The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
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Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al Capone and every gangster in the city to realize that there were still a few law enforcement agents who couldn't be swerved from their duty.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
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Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.
