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Karin Slaughter Quotes

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

Karin Slaughter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1971

Topics

Money City Library Atlanta Break

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

Jim Sullivan

Light Mistake Red Waiting You Know

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.

Matthew Rhys

Family Saying Year Back Uncle Go

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Andy Warhol

Slavery Born Being Like Kidnapped

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

Jeff Foxworthy

Thought Doing Somebody Hated Ought

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Job Game Year You Body Play

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

Amelia Earhart

I Am World Flying Transportation Air

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

Imagination People Write Up Things

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Rob Morrow

Myself Student Hollywood Consider

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

Mike Quade

Life Family Great People Media Go

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

Louis Theroux

Marriage Doing Portrait You Say

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

Debbi Peterson

Baby Reach Development Band Going

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci

Yourself People Speak Language You