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.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• 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.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Way
  • You
  • Just

• I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Intentions

• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • Garden

• I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Done
  • Moon
  • Humans

• What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• 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.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
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