Chris Pavone Quotes

'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Respect
  • Myself
  • Gossip

• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Earth

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Couple

• I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Stage
  • Respond
  • Strongly

• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Father
  • Voice

• I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Number

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Age
  • Father

• We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Will

• The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Truth
  • True

• All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People
  • Power

• Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn't he. And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It's enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he's actually read it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Family

• Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• This is what we believe.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe

• This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep, personal tragedy. I know the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best; that is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • Writing

• So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Famous
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Exercise

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• 'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.

  

  Chris Pavone