Karin Slaughter Quotes
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.
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The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.
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I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.
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I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
