John Grisham Quotes
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
Quotes to Explore
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
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The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
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Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.
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L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
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If you’re going to throw the girl to the wolves, it’s only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
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I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.
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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
