James Lapine Quotes
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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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The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy-which of course includes human economy-is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant...
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.
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The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.
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Favre hasn't told me personally, and I had lunch with Mike and Ted earlier Friday, and he hadn't told them anything, either, as of noon, anyway.
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But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
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You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
