Pete Hamill Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
