Hampton Sides Quotes

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Future
  • Try
  • Fix

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Guy
  • Television
  • Watch

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Creativity

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Done
  • Experience
  • American

• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  

  Kam Williams
  • Business
  • Death
  • Faith

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Time

• You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

  

  Bono U2
  • Time
  • God
  • Kids

• All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

  

  Jason Day
  • Control
  • Preparation

• Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

  

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