George Pelecanos Quotes
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
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Weapons are less harmful than words.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.
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If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
