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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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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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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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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The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
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Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
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Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
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We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.
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One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
