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It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So,… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga,… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
I have a lot of opinions. I express them in 'Mr. Show' very clearly, I think. I feel like both David Cross… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
Each segment has to pay off, so you have to look at it in a very, very micro-level and make each chapter… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get… — Mikaela Hoover Copy Share Image
I like to go in as a midseason replacement. That's what we did on 'Emergency.' We went on the air in February… — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are… — Andy Roddick Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
Joining ER, I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I've been offered chocolate… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia,… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
The only difference in reality TV and the other TV is that the scriptwriters for reality TV are not union. I have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities.… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but,… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
I wonder if, as the tech to deliver content continues to evolve, we will start seeing the one season / 6-8 hour… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present… — Giles Smith Copy Share Image
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