Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
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I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
