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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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 have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.
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At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.
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All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
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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.
