Sue Grafton Quotes

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

Sue Grafton

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
  • Days

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Hope
  • Man
  • Faith

• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Couple

• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Job
  • Career
  • Hate

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue

• People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Work
  • Financial

• And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

  

  Haniel Long
  • Go
  • Through
  • U.S.

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • City
  • Technology
  • Challenge

• When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

  

  George Strait
  • Time
  • Together
  • Listening

• What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • People
  • May
  • Political

• When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • Creativity

• Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

  

  John Sulston
  • People
  • Knowledge

• God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • People
  • Want
  • Interference