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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It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
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Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.
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You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.
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Character actors have a long shelf life.
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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.
