Agatha Christie Quotes
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
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The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
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Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
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The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.
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My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.
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One forgets how human murderers are.
