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?'
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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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.
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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.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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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.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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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.
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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.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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Just let your skin breathe.
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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.
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Oh, it was work and no fooling. I enjoyed it very much, because I didn’t have to do it.
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.
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In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
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Murder isn’t - it really isn’t - a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.
