Karin Slaughter Quotes
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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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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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.
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Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
