Sue Grafton Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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How'm I doing?
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
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I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.
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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
