Henry Hampton Quotes
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
