James Lapine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
-
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
-
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.
-
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
-
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
-
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
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.
-
I can do whatever I want.
-
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
-
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.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
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.
-
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
-
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.
-
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.
-
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
-
I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.
-
Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn't the winning play. The ability to pay your bills, send your kids to a good school, and keep your family safe are 'women's issues' after all.
-
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.
-
I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.
