Christopher Darden Quotes

• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Believe, Book, Editors

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Taken, Law, Gone

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• Most of the prosecutors I know are good people who are committed to protecting us from those who would prey on us. But these days, I sometimes run into prosecutors who just don't seem to have the character we used to have 20-30 years ago. People need to understand that prosecutors are lawyers, and like my grandmama once told me, a law degree is a license to lie.

  Christopher Darden

  Running, Lying, Character

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Struggle, Book, Kids

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

  Christopher Darden

  Thinking, Unique, Perspective

  "Darden promises book on Simpson, race issue". www.cnn.com. October 11, 1995.

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• The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

  Christopher Darden

  Compassion, Law, Justice

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

  Christopher Darden

  School, Law, Differences

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Moving, School, Thinking

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Selfish, Trials, Realizing

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• 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

  Girlfriend, Believe, Actors

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• 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

  Reading, Thinking, People

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

  Christopher Darden

  Fun, Hard Work, Writing

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• 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

  Anger, Writing, Emotional

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

  Christopher Darden

  Feet, Events, Lawyer

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• I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

  Christopher Darden

  Book, Editors, People

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

  Christopher Darden

  Real, Justice, Events

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• Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Sleep, Night, Law

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, School, Discovery

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

  Christopher Darden

  Lawyer, Ifs

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

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, Thinking, Controversial

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• 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

  People, Black, Stories

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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.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• 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.

  Christopher Darden

  Honest, Hell, Killing

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