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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
John Grisham
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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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I didn't dare think of the future the past was still happening.
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I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
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So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many reviews anymore. I can't control that, so I don't worry about it. I just try to do what I do and write books that people find every entertaining. I don't worry about the critics.
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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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