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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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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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.
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If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.
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As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
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'This is Major Perry’s house?''I hope so,' I said. 'All his stuff is here.'
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Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
