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You need some coffee, don't you? Yes, I've only had a gallon.

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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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Jonesboro
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John Ray Grisham
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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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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!
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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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It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
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My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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I didn't dare think of the future the past was still happening.
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