Sue Grafton Quotes
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation.
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In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.
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The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
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When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.
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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
