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 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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I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
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I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
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Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
