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Harvey Pekar Quotes

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking that I'm a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That's one reason I've been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

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Myself Hero People Me Believe Play

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Good Friend Best Fun Best Friend Go

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

Andrea Riseborough

Yourself World Think Critical About

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Love Marriage Commitment People Over

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Learning Childhood School People Me

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

Success Dreams Sports Me Loved Out

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Light You Injustice Done Bright

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Townsend Harris

Wish Open Trade Your Once Foreign

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

You Perfect Want Always Fail

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Good Heart Write Wonderful Imagery

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

Style Thought Someone Attention Try

I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Business New York Think You New

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Light Me Stand Uncle Play Say

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