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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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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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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I don't see any state that Democrats have won five out of six times, or six out of six times, that Trump, you know, at face value, poses a threat in. I just don't see it.
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People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
