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"I grew up before there were strict leash laws."
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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."
"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."
"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."
"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."
"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
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