Agatha Christie Quotes
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
Gail Sheehy -
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman -
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan -
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
Forest Whitaker -
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
Nathan Deal -
I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane -
Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener -
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
Victoria Aveyard
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
Tea Leoni -
Just let your skin breathe.
Felicity Huffman -
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson -
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn -
There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
Damon Knight -
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
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I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.
Chris Morris -
I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.
Janice Dickinson -
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.
William Wilberforce -
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai -
Murder isn’t - it really isn’t - a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.
Agatha Christie