Karin Slaughter Quotes
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
