George Pelecanos Quotes

Every young man's best purchase is his first car, which spells freedom. My first one was a '70 Camaro, springtime gold-over-saddle, a 307 with Hi-jackers and chrome reverse mags.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CarFreedomBestManYoungFirst

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

Stewart O'Nan

MeSayingWriteYearsTakeGoing

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

Robert Dallek

LeadershipConfidenceTimeTrustWar

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

Matt Bomer

ChallengeYourselfThinkBadGoOut

People want to have a good time, they want to party with their friends, but they also want to learn something.

Mija

GoodTimePeopleLearnFriendsWant

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

DayLongYouHouseThreeNever

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

Don Tapscott

LifeWorkBalanceFunTryingYou

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

Dee Rees

EasyHard ThingsHardAlwaysThings

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Chester Brown

TimeStoryThinkingContentPoint

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LoveRespectI AmEasySeeingI Can

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Boris Johnson

LovePassionBackSaidRunNever

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

GodBelieve In YourselfReligionYou

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Scott Ritter

TruthGameYouPlayBurnWant

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