Sue Grafton Quotes
You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
Quotes to Explore
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Some of the ideas I try to get across to the people who work for me are the following:
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It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
