Karin Slaughter Quotes
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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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.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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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.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.
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After you leap, before you land, is God.
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Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.
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The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
