James Lapine Quotes

I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!

James Lapine

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • School
  • She

• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Ideas

• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hate

• I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • School
  • Art
  • Thought

• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Politics

• The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Way
  • Growth

• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Power
  • Peaceful

• I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Book
  • New
  • New York

• Sanctification is not regeneration.

  

  Matthew Simpson

• No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Son

• The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

  

  Drew Endy
  • Work
  • Nature

• If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Waiting

• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  

  John Strachan
  • Feeling
  • Action
  • Desire

• I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!

  

  James Lapine
  • Theatre
  • Friendship
  • Collaboration