James Lapine Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
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I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.
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I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
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Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.
