Boredom Quote by David Nevins Download Open image “The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.” — David Nevins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Enemy Predictability Television
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good. — Teller Copy Share Image
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining. — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring.… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed. — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good,… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'. — David Nevins Copy Share Image
So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
