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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At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
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When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.
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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
