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John Grisham Quotes

I wrote a lot of 'A Time to Kill' at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., hiding in little committee rooms, killing time waiting for legislation to come to the floor.

John Grisham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1955

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Time Waiting Committee Little Floor

I don't like the pressure of TV.

Jim Nabors

Pressure Like TV

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

Better Literature Celebration Imagine

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Loneliness Struggle Say Fair Many

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

Age Opportunity Debate Now Up Bring

I think the healthier Bellator can be, the better it is for the entire sport, especially the athletes who - let's face it - need to be paid more. They need the opportunity to negotiate and have an option. Bellator definitely presents that.

Mauro Ranallo

Opportunity Face Think Better Need

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

Myself People Feel Laugh Down Dumb

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

Trisha Yearwood

Time Cool Hair Singing Thought Long

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Christopher Lasch

Life Family Diversity New Growing

I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.

Atticus Shaffer

Family Nature Love Live Mountains

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

William Jackson

Home Simple People Village More Yes

The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

Peggy Whitson

Fun People Have Fun Advice You Way

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Paz Vega

Work Family Change Fight Me Think