Pete Hamill Quotes
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.
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As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
