Hampton Fancher Quotes

I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.

Hampton Fancher

• Freedom
• Poetic freedom
• Story form

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• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

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• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

  

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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

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• I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

  

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• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

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• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

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• I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

  

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• I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Freedom
  • Poetic freedom
  • Story form