Heather Brooke Quotes
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
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We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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That's the funny thing about stealing money - it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
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Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.
