Chris Pavone Quotes

Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.

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• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Get
  • Cinema

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Hero

• The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
  • Duty

• Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Past
  • Education
  • Style

• Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.

  

  Chris Pavone
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