Pete Hamill Quotes
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Quotes to Explore
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
