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Sue Grafton

"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."

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Donna Grant

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."

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Donna Grant

"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

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Donna Grant

"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."

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Donna Grant

"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision."

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Donna Grant

"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."

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Donna Grant

"The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country."

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Donna Grant

"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."

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Donna Grant

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

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Donna Grant

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

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Donna Grant

"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."

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Sue Grafton
"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."

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Sue Grafton
"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip."

Books

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Sue Grafton
"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."

College

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Sue Grafton
"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Books

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Sue Grafton
"The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved."

Nature

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Sue Grafton
"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."

Crime

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Sue Grafton
"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."

Decision-Making

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Sue Grafton
"We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying."

Nature

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Sue Grafton
"The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course."

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Sue Grafton
"Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know."

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