Sue Grafton Quotes
There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.
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It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
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Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
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I'm a massive control freak.
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Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.
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This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
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In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.
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The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
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I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
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If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.
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I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up... I left in 1974.
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One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.
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You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
