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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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 don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
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When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.
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Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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All men are born good.
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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.
