George Pelecanos Quotes

'The Deuce' came about when David Simon and I were put in contact with a guy who, along with his twin brother, owned a couple bars in Times Square.

George Pelecanos

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Author Biography

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

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In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

Robert J. Waldinger

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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anna Freud

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I had to test a new terror in myself.

Ang Lee

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That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

Angela Carter

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Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

Amber Heard

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I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

Amanda Eliasch

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I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

Tom Parker Bowles

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I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Tom Daley

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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

Jon Fishman

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America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Dick Gephardt

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If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

Peter Singer

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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Sean Lennon

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