Karin Slaughter Quotes

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

Karin Slaughter

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• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Words
  • Know
  • Audience

• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Society

• While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Way
  • Criticism
  • Legitimate

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Very
  • Budget
  • Documentary

• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Strength

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • War
  • Respect

• Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • America

• It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Terrorism

• I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Time
  • Actress
  • saw

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Model
  • Right

• I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Success
  • Focus

• Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Inspiration
  • Offers

• When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn't feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn't understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • Remember
  • Couple

• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Young
  • Go
  • Cinema

• I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero