Karin Slaughter Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
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I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
