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Ngaio Marsh Quotes

I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.

Ngaio Marsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982

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Name End She Always Point Seems

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

Jen Lancaster

Storm Cool Remember Run Kid Used

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Russell Westbrook

Mistakes Better Learn Trying Never

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Judith Jamison

Special Roaring Twenties Audition

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

Josh Duhamel

Wife Chill Church Golf I Can Go

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Jon Favreau

Humor Day Language Laugh Real Guy

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

Chely Wright

Great Better Feeling Country Desire

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Bret Harte

Bird Hand Certainty May Sing Bush

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

Tyson Gay

Job Tough Selfish Problems Same

I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

Lindsey Stirling

Prayer Say Band Always Get Crew

I think a lot of problems in this world would stop if people could stay out of other people's business.

Kristian Nairn

Business People World Problems Think

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Kim Jong Il

Audience Emotional Define Film Plot

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

Giovanni Ribisi

History Politics Growing Up Country