Christopher Hampton Quotes

The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

Christopher Hampton

• Sunday
• Birth
• Lunch
• Royal Court

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Lunch
  • Now And Then

• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Black
  • Sunday
  • Objective

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Lunch
  • Some
  • Out

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • First
  • Sunday

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Word
  • Sunday

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Game
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Community
  • Day
  • Single

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Band

• There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Good
  • Single

• I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Experience
  • Shooting
  • Episodes

• Keeping this facility Guantanamo prison open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • World
  • Law
  • Values

• The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Sunday
  • Birth
  • Lunch