Karin Slaughter Quotes
I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
