Something a lot more than just opinion, and something you can confidently write home about.

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And his dad tells him not to go thinking he's something special just because he can write a movie script.

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And nobody has ever wanted to write a novel and settled for making their story into comics: for one thing, it just takes too damn long to draw something when you could write it instead.

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"I felt an obligation to write something about the journey or the sacrifices and the risks these folks take just to get here, " he said.

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He added that just because Ferdinand had special skills as a sportsman did not mean that his private life was something newspapers could write about without restriction.

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