Karin Slaughter Quotes
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.
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I reiterated again that if there is a large dollar number, and an agreement, talk to us, because we have to appropriate that money.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
