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Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it. George Pelecanos

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I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That's what Americans are supposed to be about, right? George Pelecanos

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People like to talk to me. I don't know why. George Pelecanos

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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. George R. R. Martin

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Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder. George R. R. Martin

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana

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We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. George Saunders

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The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. George Saunders

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I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? George Saunders

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I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs. George Saunders

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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. George Shearing

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Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. George Steinbrenner

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Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. George Steinbrenner

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My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives. George Steiner

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Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life. George Stephanopoulos

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible. George Stevens

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It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film. George Stevens

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I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do. George Stevens

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If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts. George Strait

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I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. George Strait

Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels. George Stroumboulopoulos

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I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! George Takei

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I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin. George Takei

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