Karin Slaughter Quotes
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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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 have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.
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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.