Karin Slaughter Quotes
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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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 thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
