Christopher Hampton Quotes
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.
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I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.
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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
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Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.
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I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.
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'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
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And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
