James Lapine Quotes
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
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I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.
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If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?
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As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.
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I'm a very laid-back person.
