Chris Pavone Quotes
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.
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To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
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My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.
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Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
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Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
