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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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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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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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.
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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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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.
