James Lapine Quotes
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I love talking about myself.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
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I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
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I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.
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I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
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There are certain images that always haunt me.
