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.

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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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• 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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Saying
  • Without

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  

  Yaacov Agam
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Serious

• Take '39 Steps'. When I finished writing it, I counted the number of measures in the composition. I always do this because I am interested in the length of a song. So I counted this one a couple of times because 39 is an unusual number of measures for a song.

  

  John Abercrombie
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Couple

• It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Littles

• Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

  

  Donal Henahan
  • Music
  • Long
  • Real

• If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Beginning