Sue Grafton Quotes
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!
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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
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I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
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The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
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I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
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When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.
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When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.
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We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
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It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.
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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
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Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you can’t even say a word. Should be tons of fun.” Shane almost choked, and gave Michael a sideways glare. Michael sent him a hundred-watt smile in return—no fangs, which was probably for the best.
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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
