American - Journalist | June 24, 1935 -
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
Pete Hamill
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If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.
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I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
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You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
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Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
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I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
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We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
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Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
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Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
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