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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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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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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In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door and crept in and were prowling around, checking things out and taking back reports from the front.
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If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.
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To finish first you must first finish.
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My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people home-bound from illness or injury, scattered here and there throughout rural towns and cities around the world. And as I lay there, I felt a connection to all of them. We, too, were a colony of hermits.
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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
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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.
