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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I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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The scientific study of the vital relationship between infants and their mothers was started by upper-class Englishmen who were torn from their families as young boys to be sent off to boarding schools, where they were raised in regimented same-sex settings.
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Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.
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[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
