Karin Slaughter Quotes
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I take my work seriously.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
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I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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A lot of people might gawk at it, but I really love 'Revenge of the Sith' because of what happens to Anakin.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
