Christopher Hampton Quotes
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton
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There is too little courtship in the world.
Vernon Lee
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
Ed Miliband
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I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.
Natalie Cole
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Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?
Gabrielle Roy
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If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.
Bayard Taylor
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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
Walt Disney
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(The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
Edmund Burke
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All my life I was very deprived, I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide (Whoops!).
Eminem
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fire is the most tolerable third party.
Henry David Thoreau
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Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!
Margaret Thatcher
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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.
Joel Grey
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Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.
Hank Williams III
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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Ernest Hemingway
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The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
Lael Brainard
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I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton