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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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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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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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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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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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.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
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I hate the term 'Bollywood,' because we're not a 'me too' of Hollywood. The Indian film industry is prolific.
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
