Pete Hautman quotes

“We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.”
-- Pete Hautman

Source : Pete Hautman (2011). “The Big Crunch”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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“You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a believer to be serious about my religion.”
-- Pete Hautman

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“I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.”
-- Pete Hautman

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“We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.”
-- Pete Hautman

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“Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.”
-- Pete Hautman

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“How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?”
-- Pete Hautman

Source : Pete Hautman (2008). “Godless”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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“The first step to success it's to imagine it”
-- Pete Hautman

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“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.”
-- Pete Hautman

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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”

“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

“I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.”

“A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.”

“You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.”

“I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.”