Karin Slaughter Quotes
If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.
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I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
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The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
