Sue Grafton Quotes
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
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It's always fun to try non-traditional athletic wear with cutouts and fun textures.
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I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
