James Lapine Quotes

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

James Lapine

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I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy.

Melvyn Bragg

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Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Anita Sarkeesian

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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Steven Sinofsky

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Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

Smokepurpp

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I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Rodman Philbrick

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On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

Roisin Murphy

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In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was the Russian writers I loved most, and I've spent a substantial amount of time there myself, traveling and on research grants.

Molly Antopol

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It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

Lukas Forchhammer

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I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.

David Thewlis

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

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