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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Alfred Hitchcock

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Believe Fear Inspirational
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Men Myself Young
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Beautiful Herself Thinking
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Film Life Myself
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Different Thinking
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity

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