Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
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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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.
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Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.
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Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.
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The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
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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.
