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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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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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable.
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
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It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because you realize you've been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don't do anything to get torn down.
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What does it mean to you to realize that God does know EVERYTHING about you…and still loves you beyond reason?
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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.
