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 acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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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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More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem.
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It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.
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I feel bad for Donna Middleton. But I do not feel sorry for her. This is a fine distinction, I think, but it feels right to me. I do not think Donna Middleton would appreciate my feeling sorry for her.
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I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
