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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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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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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At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
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Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.
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I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
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I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.
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Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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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.
