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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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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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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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
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The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
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Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
