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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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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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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I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
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It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
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Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'.
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You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
