Karin Slaughter Quotes
When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
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We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
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I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool'.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.
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In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
