Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
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 parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.
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I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
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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.
