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've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.
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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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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.
