John Grisham Quotes
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
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How is the Empire?
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You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
