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.
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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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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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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 never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
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I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
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Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.
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My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea.
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Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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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.
