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James Lapine Quotes

Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1949

Topics

Change Good Character People World

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

Life Death Destiny Kind Through Own

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Work Black And White Money People Me

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

Smile Dog Happy Energy Movement Who

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Age Expectations You Choose Way Get

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Hell Consequences Find Rare Film

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

Life Mother Time Woman Survival Say

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

Michelle Gagnon

Day Words End Parent Week Goal

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Success Faith Personality Yourself

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

War Poverty Resources Precious Must

There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

Community Health Police Control Over

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

Community Fight Up Driven Us Market

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

School Push Attention Down Stairs

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