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I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

~Chris O'Donnell

Topics: Angeles Before Being Cast Character Charge Complete Guys Just Know Los Los Angeles Mature More Part Playing Reinvention Think Time Young I Think

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The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Become Before Body Experiment Idea Me New New Way Over Period Place Prepared Studio Sustain Time Way Where Work Working I Can

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'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

~Chris Owen

Topics: About Acting Been Before Film First Had Real Well

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I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Absolutely Attention Before Book Business Couple Crappy Decades First Found Inspiration Job Moved Nearly Novel Plus Projects Publish Publishing Then Turned Two Wanted Wife Worked Writing

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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

Topics: Accurate Acquired Acquisitions Arms Before Decades Dozen Editor First House Houses Hundreds Job Maybe Might More Mostly Nearly Novel Per Projects Publishing Random Reject Rejection Spent Title Two Various While Workman Wrote Year

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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

Topics: Always Back Before Career Clear Even Glad Honestly Me Now Poor Ruined Started Twenty-Five Very Wanted Write Writer

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Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Accident Attention Before Book Buy Convince Easier Entirely First Get Having Made Me Novel Out Pay Pay Attention People Possible Publisher Rejected Second Trying Way Without World Write Written You

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I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Apart Before Bottom Different End Friends Great Had Job Manuscript Myself Page Pretty Proud Publishing Sent Shape Some Then Thought Titles

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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

Topics: Before Being Book Every First Front Get Past Public Put Two Will Worse

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The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

~Chris Pine

Topics: About Act Before Fail Farther Film Great Great Thing Less Much Net Prepare Presenting Public Seems So Much Time Theater Thing Time Up You

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