Bruce Vilanch Quotes
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.
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And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
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I want to be the best. I want to be counted on by my teammates. I want to be counted on by this organization and the fans. I want to be someone they know is going to bring it every single week. I prepare to be the best.
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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
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We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.
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Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
