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 was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
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When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, 'O Fortune!' said he, 'for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.'
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A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
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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.
