Alanna Knight Quotes

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime.

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• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Stress
  • Crime
  • Frustration

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • American
  • Read
  • Crime

• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Company
  • Crime

• Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Scene
  • Sketching

• With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Opportunity
  • Crime

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Think
  • Novel

• Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Violence

• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Honest

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Failure
  • Learn
  • Crime

• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • God
  • Law
  • Natural

• Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Mystery

• I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.

  

  Dennis Dugan

• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Liberty
  • Consciousness
  • Independence

• Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime.

  

  Alanna Knight
  • Crime
  • Scene
  • Novel