Sue Grafton Quotes
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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創造條件讓人民批評政府，監督政府，同時充分發揮新聞輿論的監督作用，讓權力在陽光下運行。
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
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I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
