Limahl (Christopher Hamill) Quotes
That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.
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But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
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I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
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That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
