George Pelecanos Quotes
I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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When you speak the truth, people realize that.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
