Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes
One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
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My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
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One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.
