- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020