James Lipton Quotes
When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.' … There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'
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When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
