Chris Pavone Quotes
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
Quotes to Explore
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
