Karin Slaughter Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
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Press bravely onward! - not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
