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Literary critics make natural detectives. by A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

A. S. Byatt
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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detec... by Agatha Christie

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Agatha Christie
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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective... by Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Agatha Christie
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Agatha Christie
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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Agatha Christie
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I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

Alan Greenspan
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Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. by Arthur C. Clarke

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.

Arthur C. Clarke
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You see, but you do not observe. by Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself... by Ben H. Winters

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

Ben H. Winters
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The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Ben Wheatley
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Bernie Mac
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In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

Bertrand Russell
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I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.

Brian Pinkerton
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We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.

Carolyn Keene
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Where there's a will there's a detective story. by Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Carolyn Wells
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I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

Celestine Sibley
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A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Charley Pride
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I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

Colin Farrell
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I never once regretted doing "True Detective". by Colin Farrell

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

Colin Farrell
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Cornelia Funke
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