Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
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I never really got into 'The Munsters' that much, but there was one aspect that was compelling. That was Marilyn. She was the only normal one among this group of creatures.
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I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.
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I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
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In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
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All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.
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One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
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When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
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My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'
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I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.
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Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
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I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.