David Lipsky Quotes
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
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Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
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One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
