James Lapine Quotes
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
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I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.
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Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
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The will for the deed.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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I like to keep a low profile.
