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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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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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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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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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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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.'
