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I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Crime Writer
Film Producer
Journalist
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Writer
Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
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Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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Everybody counts or nobody counts
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