Hampton Fancher Quotes

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

Hampton Fancher

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• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
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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.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
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• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Future
  • Japanese

• 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:

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Death

• 'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Should
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall

• 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.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • Eyes

• McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • War
  • History

• Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

  

  Mike Royko
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Plant

• I learned that one can always start again.

  

  Jose Mujica

• I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't have much of a social life if you can't afford to do anything. And you can't make money if your health is a mess.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Money
  • Social
  • Example

• So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Death
  • Desire

• Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

  

  Esther Smith
  • Suffering
  • Stuff
  • Sin

• Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Death
  • Stuff
  • Deadline