Pete Hamill Quotes
Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
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I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.
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There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.
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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
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I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
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Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
