Sue Grafton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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Mehr Licht!
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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'
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My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
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Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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Not everybody's life is a movie.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
