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George Pelecanos Quotes

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

City Youth Chocolate Miss

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

Strength Beauty Depression I Am Find

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Silence Possible Try Room Soon Fill

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

Michael Hastings

Genius Media Manipulation Always His

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Character You Acting Create Person

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it's had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.

Life Fear Balance Me World Golf

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

Life Pizza Me Diet Doing Find

The work is done; it is what it is. You do the work, and you hope people like it, and if they don't, don't read it. I don't read reviews. I don't have social media, so I'll stay away from that; it's easy.

Work Hope Social Media People Media

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Life Age Learn Things Just Easier

Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Family People Saying Know Illness

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

Water Myself Lying Month Little

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

Yourself Me Way Over Get Only

Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.

Heart You Know Three Nothing Islam

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