George Pelecanos Quotes

Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

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Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Joe Biden

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My sister taught me how to use my voice, and my brother taught me how to play guitar.

Sigrid

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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Tom Stoppard

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I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

Mickey Rooney

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When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Jason Kidd

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It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.

DeRay Mckesson

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We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Antonin Scalia

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When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.

AnnaSophia Robb

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I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.

Preston Sturges

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The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

Sharon Stone

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The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

Shari Arison

ChangeGoodChildrenChange The World

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