Agatha Christie Quotes
'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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'It’s all PR,' said Hutchins. 'If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.'
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It's tough to find time to get rest.
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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'
