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Christopher Darden

"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."

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"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."

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Donna Grant

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

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Donna Grant

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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Donna Grant

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

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Donna Grant

"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."

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Donna Grant

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."

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Donna Grant

"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."

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Donna Grant

"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."

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Donna Grant

"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."

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Donna Grant

"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."

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Donna Grant

"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."

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Christopher Darden
"I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care."

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Christopher Darden
"I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended."

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Christopher Darden
"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."

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Christopher Darden
"I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night."

Law

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Christopher Darden
"I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them."

People

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Christopher Darden
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."

Crime

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Christopher Darden
"In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things."

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Christopher Darden
"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."

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Christopher Darden
"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."

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Christopher Darden
"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."

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