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I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people.
Cheryl Mills
People
Feel
Haiti
Haitian
Special
Connection
I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
Cheryl Mills
Me
Women
People
Gift
Amazing
Power
See
Seemed
Give
Comprehensive
Could
Never
Like
Obvious
Comfortable
Lots
Oxygen
Want
Really
Expression
Appreciate
My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.
Cheryl Mills
Everything
Never
Make
Sure
Withhold
Frequently
Goal
Accurate
Information
I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.
Cheryl Mills
Love
Law
Matter
Will
Ways
Find
Participate
Always
Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.
Cheryl Mills
Politics
Women
Experience
Key
Value
Important
Young
Other
Way
Outcome
Only
Daughters
Important Role
Women Are
Expanding
Role
Role Models
Models
Hold
Deciding
Which
Young Women
Elections
Serve
Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.
Cheryl Mills
Future
Women
Become
Politicians
Future Generations
Impact
Generations
Attitudes
Voters
Actions
Conscious
Need
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Christopher Darden
Day
Me
Legal
Events
Lawyer
Become
Inspired
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
Inspire
School
Focus
Think
Ought
High
High School
Someone
Fact
Counselor
Mere
Metal
Doing
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Shop
Wood
Suggested
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
Christopher Darden
Work
Hard Work
Me
Writing
Live
Too
Out
Some
Lot
Fantasies
Hard
Fun
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.
Christopher Darden
Work
You
Year
Tell
Something
Fact
Maintain
Know
Got
How
Same
Quit
In Fact
Worked
Hard
Level
Last
Last Year
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
You
Law
Case
Never
Students
Longer
Accept
Advised
Doing
Did
Should
Meant
Teach
Night
Sleep
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
You
Lawyer
Criminal
Bit
Bent
Plots
Easy
Some
Pretty
Put
Along
Come
Real
Dialogue
Years
Up
Just
Just A Little Bit
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
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
Woman
People
Little Things
Black
Some
Fact
Protagonist
Said
Got
Were
Reviewers
Forgot
Moved
In Fact
Story
Little
Whole
Things
By The People
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
Me
People
Reading
Think
Assume
Easier
Would
Would-Be
About
Entirety
Like
Hill
Protagonist
Because
Context
Been
Male
Lot
Just
Want
Fictional
Interested
Even
Her
It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
Christopher Darden
Writing
Think
Else
Someone
Like
How
Screenplay
Much
View
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.
Christopher Darden
Too Late
Law
School
Power
Practice
Second-Guess
Too
Late
Guess
Worried
Kids
About
Through
Write
Take
Over
Attorney
How
Still
Get
Trying
Second
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.
Christopher Darden
People
Some People
Pay
Pay Attention
Type
Some
Something
Attention
Make
Conditions
Going
Happen
Which
Sentences
Us
Served
Serving
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.
Christopher Darden
Law
Take For Granted
Say
Those
Would
About
General
Take
Know
Most
Question
Very
American
Interesting
Little
Us
Granted
Things
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
Christopher Darden
Justice
Legal
Law
Compassion
Without
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow
Life
Hope
Faith
Fear
Cowardice
Childish
Alive
Easy
Immortal
Absurd
Idea
Discover
Origin
Kept
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow
Religion
You
Happy
People
Say
Laughing
Some
Makes
Does
Gas
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
You
Speak
Correct
Learn
Going
English
Even
Whom
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
Man
Would
Rather
Am
His
Friend
Than
Working
Working Man
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
Man
Corner
Out
Plymouth
Greatest
Came
Vermont
Greatest Man
Who
Ever
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow
Hate
Spinach
Eat
Glad
Like
Liked
Because
Just
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
Life
Few
Honestly
Meet
None
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