Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
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The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
