Karin Slaughter Quotes
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us.
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I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some friends in an urban center.
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I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
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I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough - but I don't think he's presidential. I think he's incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I'm nervous as an American.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
