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Chris Pavone Quotes

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

Chris Pavone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1968

Topics

Good Say Way Same Fiction Started

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Jocko Willink

Good Attitude Training Fun Team You

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

Michael Koryta

Work Learning River Book Cold Think

John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

Jason Blum

Movies Carpenter Social Genre Had

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

Jose Angel Gurria

Fall Will Become More Open Up

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Don Young

Cold Ice Nothing Minds Everything

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

Denise Mina

Brain Action Down Write Head Like

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

Doug Liman

Identity Bond Foundation You Phone

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

David Whyte

Honesty Humility Honesty Is Where

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

David Walton

Work Good Yourself Start Name Weird

If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.

Bret Hart

Time Best Looking Back Looking Loved

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Bryan Adams

Music Job Doing Play Know Never

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

William Shakespeare

Best Enemy More Mighty Seems He