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James Lipton

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

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Assegid Habtewold

"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher."

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Assegid Habtewold

"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

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"I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window."

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"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."

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James Lipton
"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."

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James Lipton
"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."

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James Lipton
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."

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James Lipton
"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."

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

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James Lipton
"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."

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James Lipton
"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."

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James Lipton
"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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James Lipton
"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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