Karin Slaughter Quotes
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
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No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
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They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
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Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.
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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
