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 believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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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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Justice can help reduce sexual violence: bringing to justice those soldiers responsible for sexual violence discourages other soldiers from committing such crimes.
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I love to run. It's how I clear my head.
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One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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With proper governance, life will improve for all.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
