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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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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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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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
