Karin Slaughter Quotes
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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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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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
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I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
