Sue Grafton Quotes
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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Those who go along get along.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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The whole mythological side of 'Twin Peaks' was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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I want barriers to be broken down for women.
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I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?
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But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
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Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
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David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
