Karin Slaughter Quotes
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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A lot of it's mental - a lot of the juniors, once you break them or change the momentum, they go away very quickly.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.