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Life is just a Box of Chocolates.
James Lipton
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James Lipton
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 2
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Louis James Lipton
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The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, What turns you on? Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.
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Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.
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A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.
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I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.
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I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
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If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
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I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
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I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.
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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.
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I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
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Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.
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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
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There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.
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I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.
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When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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