George Pelecanos Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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No bodyguards, no fuckin' Lear jets, no fuckin' tour bus, no 50 people following you around every day. We all had to go away from each other and the music industry for a while.
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As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
