Karin Slaughter Quotes

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

Karin Slaughter

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• We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Want
  • Talk

• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Work

• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • War
  • Sweet

• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Persons
  • Meaningful
  • Patient

• With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Opportunity
  • Crime