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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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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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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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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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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You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are.
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I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
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Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
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I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
