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Sue Grafton

"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."

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"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."

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"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

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"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."

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"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

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"One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable."

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"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
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"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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"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."
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"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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"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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