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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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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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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There is no part of me that is not of the gods!
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.
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(To his wife) You do not have testicular cancer. You don't even have 'testiculars'!
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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.
