Detectives Quotes - Page 8

• I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Months, Found, Were Pregnant

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.

  Rex Stout

  Mean, Thinking, Democracy

  "The New Invitation to Learning: The Essence of the Great Books of All Times". Book by Mark Van Doren (pp. 248 - 249), 1942.

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• Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

  Mason Cooley

  Mars, Venus, Photographer

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• Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.

  Tom Verlaine

  Couple, Thinking, People

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• In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.

  James Ponsoldt

  Rain, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Games, Creating, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's pitch and script was that he is a real Holmes-ian expert. He knew all of the mythology. He was very well-versed in the genesis of Holmes and the stories. And the twist with Watson is something we jumped at immediately. It's a very forward-thinking way of doing the show.

  Nina Tassler

  Real, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Helping, Trance, Contact

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• I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.

  Alan Robert

  Dad, Book, Men

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.

  Robert Cormier

  Modern Novel, Play, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

  Malik Yoba

  Law, Enforcement, Agents

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kids, Two, Mystery

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• When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Secret, Desire

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

  Bernie Mac

  Brother, Police, My Family

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• 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

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

  Michael Ealy

  Brother, Couple, Issues

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Hero, Writing, Hands

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• I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Knowing, Decision, Want

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• The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Curiosity, Study

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

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• American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

  Chester Himes

  Thinking, Numbers, Black

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• I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

  Mary Lavin

  Thinking, Insightful, Stories

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• Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.

  Mark Billingham

  Believe, Adventure, Unique

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• The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Cinema, Stories

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.224, Psychology Press

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• I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fiction, Christie, Fondness

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