James Lapine Quotes
The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.
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The UFC didn't want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.
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First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
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One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.
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Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream.
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
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The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.
