Karin Slaughter Quotes

'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

Karin Slaughter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodAloneChildhoodFlowersMeWind

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

Joel Salatin

EconomicsStartDownTrueFarming

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams

FailureLadyFirstCompleteMade

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

Mia Goth

ReflectionBetterYouPersonKnow

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Amanda Foreman

HistoryWifeBeginningQueenCake

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Roland Joffe

GoodPerformanceRightJustMovie

I started in theatre; the first bit of drama I did was amateur dramatics, up until I was 19. Then the TV and film opportunities came along, but now I was just ready to come back.

Michael Socha

TheatreOpportunitiesBackDramaNow

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Lobsang Tenzin

PeopleImportantIntimacyIndividual

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

Jonah Lehrer

PeopleThreeWantWayInsideMeat

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

Demetri Martin

LifeEasyYouGoDoneRelationships

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

Daymond John

WorkBusinessRedLittleDelivery

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

Bonnie Wright

ClothesImportantShapesReallyCuts

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Alice Walker

ChildrenDayMedicineDieProblem

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