Pete Hamill
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Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations. PETE HAMILL One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M.... PETE HAMILL Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of... PETE HAMILL I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. T... PETE HAMILL The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T... PETE HAMILL What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect? PETE HAMILL If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless. PETE HAMILL 'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. PETE HAMILL Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili... PETE HAMILL Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it. 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PETE HAMILL I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I ... PETE HAMILL The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted ... PETE HAMILL I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In ... PETE HAMILL In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the report... PETE HAMILL There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward R... PETE HAMILL This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. PETE HAMILL The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia PETE HAMILL One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'Th... PETE HAMILL Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by... 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PETE HAMILL Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools. PETE HAMILL The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home ... PETE HAMILL People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. T... PETE HAMILL My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it ... PETE HAMILL Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices a... PETE HAMILL I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of ... PETE HAMILL Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. PETE HAMILL I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate. PETE HAMILL In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was th... PETE HAMILL I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do ... PETE HAMILL Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies. MARK HAMILL I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, fur... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ... MARK HAMILL I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole ... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and... MARK HAMILL In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they would... MARK HAMILL I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and creat... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affect... MARK HAMILL I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal state... MARK HAMILL When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader. MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working. MARK HAMILL Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's ... MARK HAMILL I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be. MARK HAMILL You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. MARK HAMILL Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the ca... MARK HAMILL I think theatre has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. MARK HAMILL Luke: Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator. MARK HAMILL Luke : How did my father die? MARK HAMILL [griping about Tatooine] MARK HAMILL I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every positio... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind... ROBERT HAMILL [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's ... MARK HAMILL I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas wou... MARK HAMILL I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry d... MARK HAMILL I did predict that this thing was going to be bigger than 'Planet of the Apes,' and that's a quote. MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I us... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you'r... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL 'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. MARK HAMILL Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even kno... MARK HAMILL I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character... MARK HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL DOROTHY HAMILL I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms th... 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