Pete Hamill Quotes
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.
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My parents were Belfast Catholics.
