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Quote by George Pelecanos

“The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.”

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George Pelecanos, born on February 18, 1957, is an American author known for his works that focus on crime and police life in Washington, D.C. His novels are celebrated for their intricate character development and deep social insights. more

“Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”

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Author:Richard Ford

“I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

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