Pete Hamill Quotes
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters
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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
