James Lipton Quotes

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

James Lipton

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

  Nader al-Masri
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  • Practice

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  

  Adam Baldwin
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• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
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• I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
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• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
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• I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

  

  Yelena Baturina
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• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?'

  

  Mary Roach
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• I took a break from TV for about three-four years. During that time, I had to let go of some of the best shows that were offered to me, as I wanted to focus on films. It was believed that if you are seen too much on TV, you won't get films.

  

  Karishma Tanna
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• My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

  

  Curtis Armstrong
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• We don't program movies. We don't run studios. We make movies.

  

  Anthony Russo

• It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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• And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

  

  James Lipton