Chris Pavone Quotes
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.Chris Pavone
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold -
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk -
Acting is in your soul.
LaTanya Richardson -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Kate Forsyth
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman -
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
Tammy Bruce -
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole -
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver -
I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
Fatou Bensouda -
I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
Becky G -
I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
Danica Patrick -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
Ian Williams Battles
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I wore a uniform to school, so the white-on-white or black-on-black Air Force 1 Low was the simple sneaker to wear, but it was the standard.
Bryson Tiller -
I'm superstitious.
Jocelyn Moorhouse -
I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.
Mary Pilon -
An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.
Franklin Foer -
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
Marianne Williamson -
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
Chris Pavone