James Lipton Quotes

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

James Lipton

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Hair

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Think
  • Today
  • Spirit

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Party
  • Dance

• Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Great
  • Business
  • High

• I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Friendships

• Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Working
  • Author

• With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Ocean

• Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Government
  • Simplicity

• So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Believe
  • High
  • Technology

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Help
  • Game
  • Complaining

• Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Magic

• Because none of the wording is included in the artistic rendering. Moses is depicted cradling two tablets on a frieze that also includes historical lawgivers like Hammurabi, Solomon, Confucius, Muhammad, Napoleon, and the Roman emperor Augustus. The display represents the evolution of the law over the centuries. It's not intended to promote religion.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Religion
  • Evolution
  • Represents

• If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

  

  James Turrell
  • Time
  • Light

• Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
  • Moments
  • Worked
  • Favourite

• I've spent my life being embarrassed.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life

• Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

  

  James Lipton