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.
James Lapine
Quotes to Explore
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
I believe that you can always learn from observation.
Tamara Tunie
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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.
M. F. Husain
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.
Aaron Douglas
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa
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.
T. C. Boyle
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.
Page McConnell
To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
Aaron Ciechanover
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
Aaron Rodgers
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.
Jack Ma
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Damian Lewis
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz
Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
Vicente del Bosque
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
Brooke Burke
At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
Iris Apfel
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
Andrew Gross
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.
James Lapine
