Karin Slaughter Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
