George Pelecanos Quotes

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleReadingSurpriseRulesLimit

The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.

Joe Gebbia

LoveSeeingSharingIdleEconomy

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Angelina Jolie

DecisionRiskMoreDoubleComplex

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

Jeffrey Kluger

DifferencesMatchingStudyingTwins

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

Amitava Kumar

FreedomFreeAuthenticityNeverAct

'Nach Baliye' has always been one of my favourite shows on television. I always used to be an avid follower of the show, and I always wanted to be a part of this show and am quite excited to be part of it.

Amruta Khanvilkar

TelevisionAlwaysExcitedUsedBeen

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

Joseph Mazzello

ActingRealSeemMakeJustWere

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Jann Wenner

PeopleCleanUpClean UpLevelJust

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

Douglas Booth

GreatTimeTogetherJobNegative

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeDailyExperiencePastBetter

No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'

Alison Goldfrapp

MeYouLookPicturesEveryoneYour

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

Suzanne Somers

LiveOldYearsGoing

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

Serj Tankian

MusicExperiencePaintingHonest

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