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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#border #carpentry #chances #course #cross

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true? ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#just #me #over #someone #states

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #bad #bad stuff #better #came

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#attention #doin #drunk #get #just

If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#britain #choose #days #fifties #had

Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#get #howard #howard stern #me #only

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability. ↗

— Peter Hain

#countries #ensure #including #leading #lot

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #american policy #failure #foreign