Pat Brown Quotes
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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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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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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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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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
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Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
