Lauren Lapkus Quotes
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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You don't kill your way to peace.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
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I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing.
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Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.
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The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...
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How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.
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I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.
