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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
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Delighted
Rare
Turned
Fool
Nobody

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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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