George Pelecanos Quotes

Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks - what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That's how it works, right there in front of your eyes.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jessica Bird

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Baseball is a poorly run business.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

Jermaine Fowler

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As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.

Andrew Zimmern

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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

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There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

Shura

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The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

Robbie Robertson

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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

Jason Bateman

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Stanford just stood out, not even close to the other schools. I was going to wait, see what else comes into play, but when I got there, I knew I wanted to be there.

Devon Cajuste

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I'm bad in front of the camera. However, if someone gave me a small role in a film with two dialogues and one scene, I'd do it.

Arijit Singh

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Pearl S. Buck

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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

Les Paul

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