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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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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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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I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.
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American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
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Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.
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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
