Christopher Hampton Quotes
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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After all, you have a lot going for you if you’re willing to commit to learning the fox trot when you hate dancing, or giving up your cherished Saturday-morning run for a regular bedroom session of holding hands naked while staring into each other’s eyes (and seeing where that leads).
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Many kinds of processes are at work in the world around us, and they are all superimposed on, and interact with, each other in complicated ways.
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I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'
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I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.
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I want to rebuild America.
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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
