Accepting Quote by Dan Harmon Download Open image “I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.” — Dan Harmon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepting Assuming Audience Jobs Overcoming Stupid Tvs
The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they? — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open… — Serge Daney Copy Share Image
Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions. — Rebecca Mader Copy Share Image
I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you… — Bridget Regan Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours at all, they’re accidents and jokes. You’re a puppet, the universe does the work, and it gets the most done when you’re moving the least. Surrender, flow, relax. Don’t be hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain… — Dan Harmon Copy Share
I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
