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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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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I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.
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I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
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It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
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Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead.
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I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.
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But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
