32 Marcia Clark Quotes for You to Enjoy

Marcia Clark

American Lawyer

Born: Aug 31, 1953

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Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That's the hardest, most elusive one of all. Marcia Clark

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My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. Marcia Clark

Life Life Is A My Life Between Mosaic Pieces In-Between Room

I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn. Marcia Clark

Protection Sidewalk Way Kind Lawn Parked Had House Terrifying Were Up Reporters Front Famous Literally Even

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill. Marcia Clark

Man Woman Forceful Where Shrill

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women. Marcia Clark

Rights Women Think About Equal Equal Rights Am Feminist Being

I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks. Marcia Clark

You People Drama Sold Wound Networks Consultant Write Lifetime For The People Executive Executive Producer Said Pilots Up Bunch Getting Being Different Want Scripts Producer Pulled

As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity. Marcia Clark

When I went to the prosecutor's office, I wanted to be one of the good guys that the defense could trust. I'd try fair, clean cases, pull no punches, no below-the-belt stuff. Honorable. Because that's the kind of prosecutor I wanted to deal with. Marcia Clark

The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter. Marcia Clark

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid. Marcia Clark

Crime Addicted Kid Born Since Making Making Up Been Up Stories

When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe unto themselves. Because they only have each other for company, and because most people prefer harmony to discord, there's a natural desire to cooperate, to compromise in order to reach agreement. Marcia Clark

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When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it. Marcia Clark

Character You Writing Cause Every Fiction Help

People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they like the book, they're going to forget about you. The way to keep you in their mind and to get you to become a habit for these readers is you have to have a lot of product out there for them to read. Marcia Clark

You Book People Mind Become Way One Book Out See About Only Habit Like Read Readers Lot Author Forget Get Going Them Product Used Even Keep Streaming

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years, I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction. Marcia Clark

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I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom. Marcia Clark

Dramas Inside About Write Outside Courtroom

To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it. Marcia Clark

You Woman Hair Think Unless Out Criticize Silliness About Someone Something Like Talking Another Another Woman Makeup Doing Goes Artist Stop Really Why Extent

I'm a woman, and I see women get put through an awful lot of grief and be subjected to the kind of criticism, remarks, and suggestions that no woman should ever have to tolerate. And I think we should be helping each other and supporting each other. Marcia Clark

Woman Grief Women Criticism Think Other Kind See Through Remarks Put Supporting Subjected Lot Get Should Tolerate Helping Each Ever Awful Awful Lot Suggestions

When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom. Marcia Clark

Women Men Three First Building Criminal Bathroom Only Courts Were Where Which Worked Floor Started

Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic. Marcia Clark

Mind-Blowing She Always Mean Fantastic Sarah

I love Viola Davis. Marcia Clark

Love Davis Viola

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