Karin Slaughter Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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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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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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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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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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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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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
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Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
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Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
