George Pelecanos Quotes

I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive about the makeup of the American character.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

Tony Campolo

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When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

Tom Stoppard

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Teens are strange and magical.

Mary H.K. Choi

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There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

Michael Laws

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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron

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I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

Johnny Damon

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The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.

Dick Durbin

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The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

Bonnie Raitt

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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Art Buchwald

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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Annie Baker

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I've always been a lot about beauty and products, and skincare and make-up.

Winnie Harlow

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We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Peter Benchley

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