James Lipton Quotes
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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How you niggas want it? have it yo way burger king.
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A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
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I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
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My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
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I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.
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The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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about trampolines
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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
