Bruce Vilanch Quotes
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
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It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.
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I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
