Karin Slaughter Quotes
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I'd kill for 'somewhat frosty.'
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
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It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
