"I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#Blue Quotes #Care Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!”

Source : "Eva Mendes' First Interview About New Baby, Plus Her Secret Rule to Keeping Ryan Gosling Happy at Home". extratv.com. March 18, 2015.
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!”
“You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.”
“Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.”
“A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers
“A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.”
“Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.”

Source : "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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