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.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• 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.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• 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.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • American
  • Me
  • English

• 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.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• 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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• 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.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Night

• I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Childhood

• I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Time
  • Important

• It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Song
  • Service

• When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nice

• Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Good

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark