John Grisham Quotes
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense (answer) to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only. (33) tr. George Long (1888).
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If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.
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I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.
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He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.
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I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'
