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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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
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Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.
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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.
