James Lipton Quotes

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

James Lipton

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• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Believe
  • Goal

• I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Body
  • Temptation

• Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Man
  • Free
  • Black

• I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Know
  • Too Much

• Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Important
  • She
  • Know

• I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Me
  • Songs

• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Funny

• While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Military

• Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun

• I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Experience

• Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like a man who throws up a ball. What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down... what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Good
  • Together

• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • People
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

  

  Henry Knox
  • World
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

  

  Brian Wesbury
  • Growth
  • Pessimistic viewpoint
  • Grip on reality

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

  

  James Lipton