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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With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
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Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.
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Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
