Agatha Christie Quotes
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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Drugs scared me.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the season.
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I would fight every month. Think about the finances I would have. That would be financial freedom.
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In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.
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My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
