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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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.
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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.
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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.
