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Christopher Hampton Quotes

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Christopher Hampton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: January 26, 1946

Topics

Work Live Moment Early Wanted Films

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Smile Yourself Face Laugh Learn You

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

Smart Think Mature Others Something

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

People Ideas Wine Someone Look Copy

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Success Winner Long Look Situation

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Adversity Great Brainy Prosperity

My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Father People Law Help You Said

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Life Spring Development Sound Own

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

Jose Antonio Vargas

Social Media Yourself Me Chill Legal

I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.

Life Believe My Life I Believe

I love Thai boat noodles: They are kind of like pho, but with a very hearty broth. I will make the broth and just do no noodles and more bean sprouts. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, so I just get rid of as many carbs as possible that go into it.

Love Boat Go Want Kind Possible

My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

History Child Someone Born Kid Up

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Guitar Enough Long Play Up Piano

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