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.

Bruce Vilanch

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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.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Coffee is a language in itself.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Language
  • Coffee
  • Itself

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• Women know how to scare other women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Know
  • Other

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Fish
  • Chicken
  • Egg

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Inside
  • Key
  • Box

• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Curiosity
  • Bravery
  • Forms

• 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.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Feminist

• We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

  

  Laura Ashley
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Push

• Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Never
  • Old
  • Regulation

• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Taken
  • Fate

• '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.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Long

• Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Children
  • School
  • Book

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

  

  Jason Jones
  • School
  • Family
  • Kids

• 'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • American
  • Words

• Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

  

  John Delaney
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Bruce Vilanch