James Lapine Quotes

The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book. That's the way it works.

James Lapine

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MusicBookNobodyWayEmotionalUp

You can't legislate morality.

Jesse Ventura

YouMoralityLegislate

The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though, so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.

Jenny Lawson

HomeCatsStartHusbandHideNow

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran

I AmDoctorNightYouSayBeen

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

Tommy Hilfiger

PeopleCoolOutHangGoingRolling

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

Tony Rock

LoveBrotherBlackComedyKidNamed

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

Robert B. Laughlin

LifeNatureWordsPeopleQuestions

I collect toys.

Mika

ToysCollect

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Janet Weiss

YourselfBe YourselfFeelYouPlay

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Diane von Furstenberg

BeautifulWaterPinkSandIsland

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Douglas Coupland

NatureManFenceYouDownNothing

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Demosthenes

WayGetCorrectOurselvesRid

It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.

Corey Hawkins

ArtPerformanceBetterWeirdYou

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