Don Winslow Quotes

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

Don Winslow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1953

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I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

John Fogerty

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My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

Meghan Markle

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I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

Melania Trump

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Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Me a TV star? I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world.

John Ritter

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Every weekend I go to the guitar bar in Hoboken and do a jam session.

Steve Capus

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That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Story Musgrave

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My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Conrad Hall

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If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

Clive Cussler

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My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

Bonnie Bassler

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In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Bob Gunton

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Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

Anthony Doerr

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