Karin Slaughter Quotes

I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

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• Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Know
  • Look
  • Impossible

• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Know
  • Act
  • Skeletons

• Love can never be fully explained.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Never
  • For Her

• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Honest
  • Female
  • Vulnerable

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Know
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Never
  • Choices
  • Moment

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

  

  Otto Dix
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  • Him
  • Portrait

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Want
  • Words
  • Know

• My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • World
  • Travel

• When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • Doubt

• You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Cowboys that's American, it means boys who milk the cow - call them 'Stockmen'.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • American
  • Milk
  • Cow

• I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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