Karin Slaughter Quotes
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
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What can be hidden in a book?
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
