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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.
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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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He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
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I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
