Chris Pavone Quotes

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear to me that I was a very poor writer and could've ruined my career before it even started.

Chris Pavone

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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Joey Ramone

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I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

John le Carre

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Sophie Swetchine

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I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.

Sophie Turner

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Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

Simon Beaufoy

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Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.

Tom Douglas

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It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

Michel Foucault

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Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.

Luke Donald

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I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

Lorene Scafaria

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I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

Douglas Booth

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If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

Dean Ween

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