Bruce Vilanch Quotes
Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Women know how to scare other women.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.
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I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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'Long ago we parted,' said the slight, still man of the Fiia. 'Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.'
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
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Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
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Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.
