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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
John Grisham
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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
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Politician
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
Jr.
John Ray Grisham Jr
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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
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Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
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I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.
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I cannot write as well as some people my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
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I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.
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Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
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And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
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How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.
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