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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• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Game

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Country
  • Opinion

• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Help
  • Me
  • Day

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• 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
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Old
  • Younger
  • Unfortunately

• Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

  

  Gabrielle Roy

• 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
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• 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
  • Why
  • Wife
  • Dirty

• (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
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Character

• 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
  • Life

• Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Fire is the most tolerable third party.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Party
  • Fire

• 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
  • People
  • Stop

• The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh

• America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Justice
  • Concepts
  • Criminals

• [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

  

  Lyman Beecher
  • God
  • Support
  • Church

• 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