You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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