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'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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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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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
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Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
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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.
