Robert Englund

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

American Actor

Ian Rankin

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

Scottish Writer

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

English Novelist

Jude Law

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

British Actor

Garry Disher

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Australian Author

Damian Lewis

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

English Actor

Joshua Oppenheimer

At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.

British Director

William Devane

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

English Poet

Rick Stein

It's nice to see some fresh herrings on the fish stand.

English Chef

Often found in Scandinavian or Northern European cuisine, herring is commonly eaten pickled or smoked.

Culinary Context

Herring is associated with the traditional food of various celebrations, such as Dutch Koninginnedag.

Cultural Associations

As a nutritious fish rich in omega-3, herring is considered beneficial for heart health.

Health Implications

'Red herring' is often found in mystery novels to mislead the readers or characters.

Literary Usage

In debates, a red herring distracts opponents or audiences from the main argument.

Debate Tactics

Understanding red herrings helps identify when someone is using this logical fallacy in an argument.

Logical Fallacy

'Herring' can be specific jargon in card games, less common in general vocabulary.

Gaming Jargon

In card games, having a herring can be strategically advantageous, depending on the game rules.

Game Strategy

The value of a 'herring' varies by game, so it's important to know the context when it's used.

Know the Rules

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 Herring gulls and wood turtles also sometimes drum their feet on the earth to summon worms. So then why does this behavior persist? Scientists think it’s beneficial for a prey species to maintain its adaptations against a more frequent predator, even if it makes it more vulnerable to a rarer one.

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 And with our hyper-consumption of those animals producing greenhouse gases and heart disease, kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of the animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.

What's wrong with what...

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 the largest most powerful predators in the ocean they hunt everything from humpback whales and sea lions to squid and salmon even tiny herring it should be said that there are no reports of orcis killing humans in the wild but these are school bus sized creatures

The Secret Culture of...

 world's marine animals that scooped the month with open mouths or pick the one by one from the water or stun them with a flick of the tail for some species herring are the staff of life humans to have been fishing herring for centuries perhaps millennia

Herring Hazards PIPE...

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Reflecting On A Life...

 important area to think about next always think about health not appearance this isn't a euphemism the outward appearance of excess weight gain is a red herring obesity is a health issue

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 these feeding frenzies don't last long though the herring eventually escape diving deep out of reach of these surface predators

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