Karin Slaughter Quotes

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

Karin Slaughter

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

  

  Olly Murs
  • World
  • Heart
  • Job

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fun

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Actor

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Responsibility
  • Problem
  • Environment

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  

  Tana French
  • Find
  • Situation
  • Author

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Years
  • Sex

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Forget

• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Music
  • Song

• Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work

• I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Choice