Deborah Kaplan Quotes
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
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I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
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Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.
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It is not an easy thing to do found the tone right away.
