Sue Grafton Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.
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My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.
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Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
