James Lapine Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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No one person is an island.
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I love working with women.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'
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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.
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You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
