Karin Slaughter Quotes
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I think the long interview has an important life.
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It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
