Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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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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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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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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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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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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The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
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Eyesight should learn from reason.
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Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
