Karin Slaughter Quotes
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm not politically correct.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
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In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
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Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
