Karin Slaughter Quotes
I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
-
People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
-
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
-
Everything can be satirized.
-
Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
-
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
-
I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
-
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
-
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
-
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
-
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
-
The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
-
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
-
You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good and that they'll be okay.' But it's like, every day we're worried, 'Are we gonna be good?' Things change constantly, so you just gotta push, and you gotta work to the core.
-
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
-
I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
