Karin Slaughter Quotes
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm not politically correct.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
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I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
