Pete Hamill Quotes
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
