John Grisham Quotes

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Father
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Silly

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Space
  • Sun
  • Stars

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Like
  • Find
  • Toughness

• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Character

• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Rest
  • Language
  • Yourself

• I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Regret

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Actor

• I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Films
  • Hindi

• I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Value
  • Give
  • Prize

• Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Helping
  • Situation
  • Term

• I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Sad

• I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

  

  John Grisham