Christopher Hampton Quotes
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
Rachel McAdams -
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
Fiona Shaw -
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse -
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken -
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
J. J. Abrams -
It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
Parker Posey
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
Zahi Hawass -
I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
Natalie Coughlin -
Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
Tatiana Maslany -
The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
Camille Paglia -
MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
Jack McDevitt
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles -
Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
Antonio Porchia -
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
Alan Ball -
Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.
Jim Talent -
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
Lee Westwood -
I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.
Jeb Bradley
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I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.
Marc Anthony -
The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.
B. Joseph Pine II -
I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
Takeshi Kitano -
I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
Anna Faris -
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
E. F. Schumacher -
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
Christopher Hampton