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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If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.
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People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.
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No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
