Sue Grafton Quotes

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

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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.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• 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.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • motivation
  • Kicked

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Interesting
  • Twin

• 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.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • America
  • Alone
  • Car

• Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Sales

• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 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.

  

  Claudio Hummes
  • Power
  • History
  • Society

• 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?

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Children
  • Why
  • Cutting

• 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.

  

  Alex Winter
  • Happy

• Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

  

  David Ives
  • Small

• We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

  

  Johann Lamont

• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Character
  • Insistence
  • Separating

• Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Blue
  • Collars
  • Kinsey