Sue Grafton Quotes
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life
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Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
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I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
