George Pelecanos Quotes

'True Grit' is one of the few books my sons let me read to them - and paid attention to - when they were younger.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People can rationalize in funny ways to hold onto their dreams and needs.

Jesse Plemons

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I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Robert Mugabe

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The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

Amity Shlaes

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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Sophie Turner

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I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Sullivan Stapleton

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The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Rob Lowe

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How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

Lubna Olayan

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I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

Jonathan Levine

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My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

Christina Ricci

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When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wasn't an actor. But Cecil Pickett molded me and taught me.

Brett Cullen

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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Bono

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Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

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