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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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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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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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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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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There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
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I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by things that are always changing, like the public's opinion, or what I'm wearing, or what job I'm doing, there's no stability in that.
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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.
