James Lapine Quotes
When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I want to play interesting women.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.
