John Grisham Quotes
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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.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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'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.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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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.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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.
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.
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I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
