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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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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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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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
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I'm basically nocturnal.
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To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
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No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
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I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
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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.'
