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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
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Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.
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It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.
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I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.
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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.
