Quotes by Bruce Eric Kaplan - Page 1

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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Birthday
Bought
Gifts
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I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.
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Self Help
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I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
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Whine
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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Love Anything More
Charles
Love More Anything
More Than Anything
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I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.
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Cords
Remembering
Telephone
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I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.
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Continually
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I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.
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Watching Tv
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I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
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Graduation
Love Always Will
Speeches
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It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
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Drawing
Upset
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
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Desk
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When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
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Watching Tv
Tv
Loved
Crawl
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In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Los
New Yorker
Yorker
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Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
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Frustrated
Online
People Sometimes Something
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We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
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Curtains
Dolls
Occasionally
Pull
Reveal
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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Graduation
Consciousness
Force
Reflect
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Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.'
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Los Angeles
Pleasant
Shooting
Angeles
Los
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I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
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Distracted
Dying
Feed
Preoccupied
Upsetting
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Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.
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Seinfeld
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We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
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Clothing
Once A Year
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Sidetracked
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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Sickness
Childhood Me Remember
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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Tv Shows
Watching Tv
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I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.
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Real Life
Bond
James
James Bond
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
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Diaries
Thinking World Me
Cartoons
Figuring
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One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.
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California
Cartoonist
Identity
Southern
Southern California
New Yorker
Yorker
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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Los Angeles
No Idea
Angeles
Be Nice
Horrifying
Los
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In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.
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Diaries
Particular
Therapy
Cartooning
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I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.
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New Yorker
Yorker
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In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.
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Angry
Big Deal
Walk People Street
No Big Deal
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It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
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Cartoon
Memorable
Time Me New
Bought
Respond
New Yorker
Sending
Yorker
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One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
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Convergence
Quintessential
Graduate
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I never really got into 'The Munsters' that much, but there was one aspect that was compelling. That was Marilyn. She was the only normal one among this group of creatures.
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Aspect
Compelling
Marilyn
One Aspect
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I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.
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Assuming
True Self
Be True
Early Age
Showing
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My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.
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Dropping
Noise
Ceiling
Startled
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My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.
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Begging
Cartoon
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I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.
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Strip
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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Graduation
Impart
Self Help
Sanctioned
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All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.
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Beer
Odd
Tin
Bottle
Foil
Refrigerator
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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Show Business
Business Movies Myself
Failed
Short Stories
Sitcoms
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When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
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Invariably
Responsibilities
Tends
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There was never any butter in our home. Just margarine. My parents acted like butter was lethal. I don't think I ever saw either one have a piece of butter. I would go over to friends' houses and down sticks of butter.
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Sticks
Acted
Butter
Lethal
Houses
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Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
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Now And Then
Variety
Wide
Man People Woman
Collar
Suit
Tie
Wide Variety
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Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
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Exciting Life
Heartbreaking
Lucy
Stuck
Life Love Famous
Episode
Ricky
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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Art School
Cartoonist
Primitive
Self Taught
Drawings
James
Raw
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I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.
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Anxious
Inviting
Worried
Always Where Better
Better Always Will
Forgetting
Better Will Always
Parties
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