Christopher Hampton Quotes
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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I'm a big fan of my father.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
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I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
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I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
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I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
