Pete Hamill Quotes
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
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It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
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I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Everybody needs an editor.
