Hampton Fancher Quotes
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
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He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.
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Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
