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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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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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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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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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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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.
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The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.
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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.
