"There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films."

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Christopher Hampton

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“If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.”
“Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.”
“I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency”
“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.”
“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.”
“I felt like Jerry Lewis in France! Let the cast of Heroes go to France! The Office cast loves Scranton! The nicest people on earth are in Scranton. Thank you, Scranton for an experience we will take with us for the rest of our lives.”
“When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.”

Source : Jet Magazine, January 8, 1990.

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