"I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain."

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I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.

— Elizabeth Gilbert