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George Pelecanos Quotes

I had met many wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when I was researching my 2009 novel 'The Turnaround,' and I continue to be very interested in how returning servicemen and women deal with their new lives back home and how they're treated by America.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

Democracy Enjoy Never Forget Mission

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

Time Reading Stop Movies Become Gut

Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

Nature Grow Faster Most Than Other

Most actors have been fired during their career.

Career Fired Been Most

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

Best Soul My Soul You Goal I Can

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Best Fight School Blue Champion You

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Mother Childhood Me Prison Think

I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

Lipstick Barn Production Halloween

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I Am Say Will Office Employment

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

Love Art Think Trying You Movies

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Smile Face Eyebrows Genetic Just

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Love Me Mom Song Name Dark

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