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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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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If society is the prison, families are the cells, with no time off for good behavior. Good behavior in fact tends to lengthen the sentence.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
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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.
