George Pelecanos Quotes

My father's diner, the Jefferson Coffee Shop, was a simple, 27-seat affair in Washington D.C., open for breakfast and lunch - coffee and eggs in the morning, cold cuts and burgers in the afternoon.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

Joe Mantegna

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I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

John David Washington

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Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

Andrew Yang

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The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

Jean-Luc Godard

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If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

Robert Dallek

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I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.

Tom Drury

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Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Martin Rees

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I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Janice Dickinson

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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Aravind Adiga

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

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On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.

Aubrie Sellers

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It's not that we go around the set thinking, 'Oh, today we are going to kiss, so let's enjoy'. It's not that. It's acting. If it's important for the script, so be it.

Alia Bhatt

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