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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
John Grisham
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John Grisham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 8
Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
John Ray Grisham
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John Ray Grisham Jr
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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 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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I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
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In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.
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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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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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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.
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It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
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Poverty is a great equalizer
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When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
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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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We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.
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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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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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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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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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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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