Alija Izetbegovic
Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925-2003)
Sir Christopher James Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation.
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About the Christopher Hampton
Sir Christopher James Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation. He has thrice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: for Dangerous Liaisonsand The Father (2020); winning for the former and latter.
Hampton is also known for his work in the theatre including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Philanthropist. He also translated the plays The Seagull (2008), God of Carnage (2009), The Father (2016), and The Height of the Storm (2019). He also wrote the books and lyrics for musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). He received two Tony Awards for Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.
8 Quotes by Christopher Hampton
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You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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I think there’s something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It’s humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Christopher HamptonBritish playwright, screenwriter and film director