Agatha Christie Quotes
Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you’ve exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it’s better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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You look marvelous!
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.
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I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.
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School is a place were you go to eat your lunch.
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Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you’ve exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it’s better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.
