John Grisham Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.
