Pete Hamill Quotes
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.
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All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
