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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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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At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
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Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
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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.
