Lauren Lapkus Quotes

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

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• Imperfection is perfection.

  

  Flume
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection

• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Know
  • Fell

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Know
  • Succeed

• Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

  

  Dan Carter
  • People
  • Home
  • Looking

• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Good
  • Book
  • Difference

• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Falling

• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Men
  • Young
  • Old

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Work
  • America
  • Feeling

• Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Writing
  • Red
  • Act

• The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Circumstances
  • Cynical

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sometimes
  • Baby
  • Enjoy

• If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Leaving

• Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

  

  August Wilson
  • Focus

• I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Legacy
  • Behinds
  • Shining

• Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

  

  will.i.am
  • Way
  • Computer
  • Communicate

• It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Political

• I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

  

  Lauren Lapkus