George Pelecanos Quotes

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperiencePeopleMindReadingYou

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

Andrew Haigh

PastPresentHelpEventsEverything

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

Melanie Scrofano

YouLookActorGetJustStuff

I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.

Angelique Kerber

BirthdayHomeRememberPartyBig

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Andy Goldsworthy

LifeRedMeWorldEnergyEarth

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

Steve Vai

GoodMusicTimeYourselfCheating

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

CharacterProblemsThinkingYouJust

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

Mitt Romney

TimeEyeLongLong TimeLineSee

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

Derek Cianfrance

TimeJobStartFaceEnoughYou

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

Cindy Gallop

FunCareerNeverGetWantedSome

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

Antonia Bird

LearningFaceRealityFightingFind

We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.

Ashley Williams

ParentsLongRealizeThingsTake

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.

Todd Rundgren

BusinessYouTableKindWaySell

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