Peter Hambleton famous quotes

06-15-2025

When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.
-- Peter Hambleton

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The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.
-- Peter Hambleton

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I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.
-- Peter Hambleton

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My girl and my kid gets the best, always.
I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

Peter Hambleton famous quotes

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