James Lapine Quotes
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.
