The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
Bruce Vilanch
Related I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec... MARY GAITSKILL Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album ref... EMINEM He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY What matters is what we do with the life we have. CARRIE RYAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON I just look at what's going on in the world. VINCE FLYNN If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who... JAY-Z God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed ... ARTHUR PEACOCKE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins C.S. LEWIS 90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's... BOB GELDOF You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's ... STEVE MARTIN Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t... GWENDOLYN BROOKS The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's ... DAKOTA GOYO I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched... CLAUDIO REYNA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things... JUDD APATOW What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that poin... OLGA KURYLENKO There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight sui... OLIVER NORTH It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, lik... JOHN LASSETER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at tha... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world. BURNIE BURNS None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in t... MORRIS WEST Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning... GRANT MORRISON 'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happe... DOUG AITKEN We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ... MARKUS ZUSAK I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going t... SAM BRADFORD One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You ne... JEFF BRIDGES The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it w... TOM WUJEC From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and tha... CARL HIAASEN Nothing less than 7 inches. CASSANDRA CLARE The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance th... LAWRENCE KASDAN But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will... T.S. ELIOT It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - ... MAJORA CARTER Harrison Ford comes on set, and he's very polite and says, 'Hello' to everyone. He cares... LIAM HEMSWORTH This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&... IAN RUSH Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ar... STANLEY CROUCH Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, ... DANIEL CRAIG I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What... EMMA WATSON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's... MICHAEL SHANNON It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it'... CAT CORA It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to ... MAGDA APANOWICZ It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a... RIZ AHMED It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there... PAUL GREENGRASS My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp... J.K. ROWLING There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the ... CHAD SMITH Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of... MARTIN SCORSESE That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possibl... JULIE MEHRETU No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but... RICHARD LINKLATER The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ... TIM COOK I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture... ISMAIL MERCHANT There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level... REBECCA HALL how can the world go on when mine has been destroyed? CHERISE SINCLAIR Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR.
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BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu... BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,... BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t... BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty... BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo... BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th... BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min... BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct... BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha... BRUCE BARTON As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve... BRUCE BARTON