James Lapine Quotes
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.
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I'm so comfortable and happy with the woman that I am.
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I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
