Christopher Hampton Quotes
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.
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It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
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My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.
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I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
