Agatha Christie Quotes
This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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I'm not an oddball.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, 'You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.' (p. 177)
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When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
