Sue Grafton Quotes
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
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I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye, and it's really humiliating.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
