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Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.


John Sandford

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JOHN BURDETT I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON