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Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not. ↗

— James Lipton

#busy #comedians #funny #laugh #too

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. ↗

— James Lipton

#anybody #craft #driver #driving #fascinating

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks. ↗

— James Lipton

#first #first of all #force #i #me

And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television. ↗

— James Lipton

#chance #come #god #i #knew

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene. ↗

— James Lipton

#hackman #him #live #means #moment

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. ↗

— James Lipton

#being #criticize #critics #doing #done

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #audience #because #craft #decision

How would you like to find out how good my right is? ↗

— Sonny Liston

#good #how #like #out #right

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fall #favor #honor #more #sometimes

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#writing #men