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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it. — Pete Hamill

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless. — Pete Hamill

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. — Pete Hamill

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. — Pete Hamill

Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants. — Mark Hamill

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. — Pete Hamill

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town. — Pete Hamill

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it. — Pete Hamill

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. — John Hamill

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages. — Pete Hamill

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate. — Pete Hamill

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers. — Pete Hamill

Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else. — Patricia Hamill

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music. — Pete Hamill

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. — Dorothy Hamill

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters, — Pete Hamill

Everybody needs an editor. — Pete Hamill

I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution. — Pete Hamill

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. — Dorothy Hamill

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. — Pete Hamill

He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire. — Pete Hamill

I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind. — Pete Hamill

You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that. — Mark Hamill

I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it. — Patricia Hamill

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader. — Mark Hamill

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut. — Kristi Yamaguchi

If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost. — Patricia Hamill

Presents? Cake? I could use a new bat, maybe some good work boots or running shoes. — Patricia Hamill

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. — Patricia Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in. — Dorothy Hamill

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know. — Pete Hamill

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks. — Pete Hamill

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality. — Dorothy Hamill

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. — Mark Hamill

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead. — Pete Hamill

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center. — Sam Hamill

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house. — Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. — Pete Hamill

I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that. — Pete Hamill

I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn; — Pete Hamill

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker. — Pete Hamill

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore. — Pete Hamill

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news. — Pete Hamill

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of. — Mark Hamill

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be. — Mark Hamill

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. — Pete Hamill

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again. — Dorothy Hamill

Reaches past her back and holds one of her hands. Silence — Pete Hamill

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. — Sam Hamill

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. — Dorothy Hamill

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular. — Dorothy Hamill

Writers are rememberers. — Pete Hamill

Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way. — Pete Hamill

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. — Dorothy Hamill

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero. — Pete Hamill

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill

My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight. — Dorothy Hamill

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations. — Pete Hamill

You have to stand out, do something, to be remembered. — Patricia Hamill

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice. — Dorothy Hamill

I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat! — Dorothy Hamill

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know? — Pete Hamill

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers. — Pete Hamill

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies. — Mark Hamill

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't. — Sam Hamill

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. — Pete Hamill

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis. — Pete Hamill

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. — Mark Hamill

You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others. — Pete Hamill

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other. — Pete Hamill

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it. — Dorothy Hamill

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm. — Pete Hamill

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was. — Pete Hamill

know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall. — Pete Hamill

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. — Mark Hamill

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. — Dorothy Hamill

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul. — Pete Hamill

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young. — Dorothy Hamill

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility. — Pete Hamill

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language. — Pete Hamill

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win. — Mark Hamill

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input. — Mark Hamill

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red. — Pete Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. — Dorothy Hamill

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back. — Pete Hamill

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. — Dorothy Hamill

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist. — Pete Hamill

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were. — Mark Hamill

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage. — Pete Hamill

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. — Pete Hamill

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name. — Pete Hamill

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door. — Pete Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. — Dorothy Hamill