You Can't Judge Islam By Those People

I Don't Think I'll Ever Lose The Feeling That I Had When I Read 'to Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee Was Going Back Into Her Childhood. I Grew Up In A Real Small Town - Lee's Was In The South, Mine The Northwest - But Small Towns Have A Lot In Common. There Was Such A Revelation In Knowing That A Story Could Be Told Like That.

You Have To Be Careful Not To Use Anything Too Colloquial Or You Date The Book.

The Premise Of 'deadline' Forced Me To Go Against My Own Grain With A Character Determined To Find All That Is Valuable In That Time. I Believe This Is A Story About Redemption; How, Even With The Best Intentions, It's Sometimes Found And Sometimes Not.

I Walk Outside And Scream At The Top Of My Lungs, And It Maybe Travels Two Blocks. A Whale Unleashes His Cry, And It Travels Hundreds Or Even Thousands Of Miles. Every Whale In The Ocean Will At One Time Or Another Run Into That Song. And I Figure Whales Probably Don't Edit. If They Think It, They Say It...whale Talk Is The Truth, And In A Very Short Period Of Time, If You're A Whale, You Know Exactly What It Is To Be You.

You Can't Judge Islam By Those People Any More Than You Can Judge Christians By Abortion Clinic Bombers Or White Separatists. Love Turn To Hate At The Fringes Of Any Belief System.