Hampton Fancher Quotes

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

Hampton Fancher

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• Aldous Huxley
• John Faulkner

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• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
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  • Fun
  • Best

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Myself
  • Present
  • Macho

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
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  • Afraid

• I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Travel
  • Cold
  • Really

• I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Never

• Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Open Mind

• I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

  

  Chuck Feeney

• I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Friend

• When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Commitment

• Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Help
  • Education

• Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Hell

• Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom
  • Aphorisms

• I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Wanted
  • Cant
  • Cheeseburger

• People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Songs
  • Writers

• I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Discipline
  • Perfectionist
  • Obedient

• I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Help
  • Focused
  • Prevents

• Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

  

  Annie Ernaux
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Purpose

• It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Writers
  • Screenplay
  • Aldous Huxley