Top 44 Christopher Darden Quotes

#1. Be superior by having no inferiors. Don't force for equality, but give. For it is not up to us to decide how others treat us, rather it is up to us how we treat each other, and how we improve as individuals.

JD

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#2. 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.

Christopher Darden

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#3. '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

Dolly Parton

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#4. The scarf could go on and on and on and on, and it could be the harlot-red banner of shame that wrapped him up and kept him warm when the nights grew lonely and cold.

Amy Lane

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#5. I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

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#6. I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

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#7. I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

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#8. Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

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#9. I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

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#10. That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

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#11. It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Christopher Darden

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#12. Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

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#13. The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

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#14. I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

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#15. My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Gore Vidal

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

Christopher Darden

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#17. The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

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#18. You can break my body but never my spirit because that's graced by God.

Veronica Purcell

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#19. 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.

Christopher Darden

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#20. 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.

Christopher Darden

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#21. I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie ... it's all some kind of an escape.

M. Ward

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#22. If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Kate Atkinson

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#23. The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden

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#24. Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

George Herbert

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#25. I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

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#26. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

James Madison

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#27. 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.

Christopher Darden

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#28. I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

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#29. It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

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#30. 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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#31. Dude, can I have your pickle?

J.C. Lillis

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#32. 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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#33. 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.

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#34. In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

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#35. When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.

John Gardner

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#36. That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

Christopher Darden

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#37. 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.

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#38. There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

J.K. Rowling

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#39. Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive ...

Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

Roger Ballen

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#40. A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

Christopher Darden

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#41. It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

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#42. For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

William Gibson

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#43. People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Banksy

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#44. I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

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