Karin Slaughter Quotes
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
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I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
