Sue Grafton Quotes
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
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Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.
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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
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I don't want to work all of the time.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.
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I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.
