Chris Pavone Quotes
I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I just can't read music.
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Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
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I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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Salman bhai is amazing, and he is one of the greats of our cinema, and I don't think I should be compared to Salman Khan.
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
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I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
