Christopher Hampton Quotes
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.
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I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
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I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
