John Grisham Quotes
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.
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I write in a rush of memory.
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Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
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I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
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There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
