I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So,… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
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I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I try to make as much time as I can for R5, because I love it so much. Ultimately, that's what's going… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image
I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies,… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I did not watch 'Succession.' I know it's the greatest show ever to exist. I'm not a moron. Everybody understands it's the… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always,… — Elisha Cuthbert Copy Share Image
I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through… — John Madden Copy Share Image
When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's… — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
There have been people who've understood it for a long time, who've gone, okay, this is a medium I get. It's not… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
I feel like with 'Hubie,' it was just a matter of the difference between working on a movie versus a TV show.… — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Reading requires actual concentration . If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With… — Daniel Ehrenhaft Copy Share Image
One of the great achievements of 'Game of Thrones' is that everybody knows at least 10 characters are going to die every… — Michael McElhatton Copy Share Image
I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I… — Jurgen Klopp Copy Share Image
“I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
Most of the network television audience now is primarily women, but I think that's because the shows are developed to appeal to… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started… — Tate Donovan Copy Share Image
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![“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of…” quote by Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/anne-carson-1985_air_short-talk-on-sylvia-plath-did-you-see-h_1898642.jpg)
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