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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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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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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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
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Bringing the astronaut's nightmare to life so vividly is a remarkable accomplishment but Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron want more than just the adrenaline ride - they're feeding our wonder and inviting us to think deeply about profound questions of existence.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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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.
