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Pete Hamill Quotes
«There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.»
Author: Pete Hamill
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Another Country, Big Country, diamonds, disasters, football player, fortunes, murders, players, skies, Texas, The Diamonds, the Football, The Fortunes, The Women
«He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.»
«He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor. I had no idea that he was writing anything until someone called me up and said, 'Frank McCourt's written this amazing book,' which turned out to be 'Angela's Ashes.' »
Author: Pete Hamill
«If you're going to write about things that are as old as mankind, you've got to find a new, fresh way to write about them, to make people interested. Winchell found a way.»
Author: Pete Hamill
«He became out of step with the basic audience, because they didn't believe it. And I think that was the beginning of the end of Winchell. I think it was a self-inflicted wound.»
Author: Pete Hamill
«This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.»
Author: Pete Hamill
«It's a good demonstration of will for any terrorist outfit to consider. If they knocked out every subway line and all the bus terminals, New Yorkers would leave the house, moaning, and find their way to work. That's our tribe.»
Author: Pete Hamill
«Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.»
Author: Pete Hamill
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Koch
«There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.»
Author: Pete Hamill
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elegantly, jugular, press conference, private parts, rehearse, rehearsed, rehearsing, rolling, Rolling Stones, set in, sinister, snarl, snarling, snarls, switchblade, switchblades, The Rolling Stones, unfolding, unkempt