Karin Slaughter Quotes
It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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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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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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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
