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For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life. Patti Smith

Life, Great, Coffee, Best, Sky, Book

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie

New York, City, Story, New, Ridiculous

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports. Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Good, Weather, Small, Book, Bride, Enjoy

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. Jeff Foxworthy

Home, Think, You, Redneck, Neighbors

I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective. Susan Burton

Flower, Car, Son, School, Me, Dinner

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. Ryan Gosling

Age, Me, Growing Up, Gangster, Loved

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. Jeffery Deaver

Science, Tradition, Back, Going, Stories

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. Jonathan Winters

Fight, Doctor, Test, Pilot, Scarf, Kid

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. Judy Blume

Father, Mother, Great, Growing Up, Loved

A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl. Otto Penzler

Good, Girl, Reading, Story, Battle, Bad

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. Tom Reiss

Time, Justice, Art, Pain, Fight, Me

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. John Buchan

Heart, Man, Born, Bottom, He, Every Man

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! Marie Windsor

Thought, Doing, Know, Low, Lighting

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. P. D. James

Story, Order, Restoration, About

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. Dorothy L. Sayers

Story, End, Will, Seem, Because, Come

I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience. Jill Scott

Learning, Blessing, Experience, Me, Say

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. Umberto Eco

Quality, Present, Special, Taste, High

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting. Rachel McAdams

Work, Woman, Strong, Feel, Interesting

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. Rex Stout

Joy, Rare, Finesse, Daring, Read

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. Joseph Wambaugh

Me, Research, Doing, Enjoy, Pleasure

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources. Victor Davis Hanson

History, Present, Rules, Know, Within

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star. Jill Sobule

Rock Star, Rock, Kid, Spy, Star, Wanted

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke

Science, Science Fiction, Politicians

I had a Super Beetle that I restored and painted deep purple in honor of Jimi Hendrix that was stolen. After that, I got a Ford Falcon that had no windshield wipers, so whenever it rained - which, thankfully, in L.A. it doesn't do very much - I'd have to lean out my driver's side window like 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.' Tamara Taylor

Pet, Window, Deep, Honor, Purple, Out

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. Paul Auster

Life, Myself, Poetry, Writing, Reading

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened. Alexandra Daddario

Great, People, Brain, Student, Know, Why

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