Bruce Vilanch Quotes
I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases.
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I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
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Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.
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I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.
