Karin Slaughter Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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I love twins stories.
