Pete Hamill Quotes
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
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Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
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But what good’s abundance if nobody can experience it?
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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
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Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
