Pete Hamill Quotes
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
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Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
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I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
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I could have kept writing 'Irish' novels such as Birchwood and probably had a good deal more success than I did, especially on this side of the Atlantic. But you have to try to do many things. You have to try to do things that you actually think you're incapable of.
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
