Christopher Hampton Quotes
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton
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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.
Victoria de los Angeles
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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.
Wallace Shawn
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Adam Cohen
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!
Benjamin Carson
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I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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I think Joe's underappreciated, I think Andy's underappreciated, I think Pete's underappreciated, I don't think people know how good he is. I think Neal Avron's underappreciated, but if anything, I feel overappreciated. I think Patrick Stump gets enough attention.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I have a couple of really hard, weird laughs every day.
Ben Falcone
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There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
Peter Coyote
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I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton