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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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
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There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
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I love a Coffee Crisp, and they are nowhere to be found in America.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
