Sue Grafton Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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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.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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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.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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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.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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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.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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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.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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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?
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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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.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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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.
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Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
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Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss. What we can monitor is the credit quality of the underlying papers. Are the companies paying interest on time? Is there any deterioration in the credit quality of these companies?
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
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I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
