Prime Time Quotes

• The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

  Dave Barry

  Party, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

  Payne Stewart

  Prime

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• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Morning, Sunday, Night

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• Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

  Angie Dickinson

  Strong Women, Careers, Police

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  Conan O'Brien

  Alzheimer's, Cells, Brain

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• One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Time, Growing Up

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ch. 1 (1961)

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• Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

  Hal Borland

  Kids, Weekend, Shopping

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• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

  Jane Pauley

  Funny, Office, Giving

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• That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes - wrestling has become prime time for the masses. He's making these giant men into millionares with movie star status.

  Samantha Barks

  Stars, Taken, Wrestling

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• Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

  Jeff Greenfield

  Fancy, Prime, Shots

  "Blog, Day 3" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2004.

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• Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.

  William Arthur Ward

  Good Day, Priorities, Prime

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• They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.

  Patric Verrone

  Moving, Reality, Unions

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• Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

  Remarks to Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Cal., 19 May 1992

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• Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

  Jodie Foster

  Reality, Honor, Details

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Media, Television, May

  "NSA's phone snooping a different kind of creepy" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

  Hugh Laurie

  Drama, Roles, Foxes

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Mar 29, 2012

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• They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008.

  Evander Holyfield

  Team, Thinking, Boxing

  "Holyfield: 'I just believe that I can'". Interview with Bryan Armen Graham, www.si.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, "Darius, you have already passed that mark in your career. You have done prime time and feature films and continue to go upward," and I go, "Are you kidding me?".

  Darius McCrary

  Past, Careers, Done

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

  John Polson

  Blue, Blood, Wife

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• Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

  Frank Rich

  Stories, Addresses, Speech

  "Frank Rich: The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off" by Frank Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Morning, Hands, Cartoon

  "Comic-Con: AMERICAN DAD’s Rachael MacFarlane Talks Up the New Season; Reveals Her Musical Aspirations". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the main season. I suppose there are times when I might look at that and think that's the major league. But when you look at it, ultimately would I really want to gamble my livelihood and my ability to connect with my fan base or write a show that I really like writing, or in some cases direct a show that I really like directing, for the sake of winning an ego battle? It's totally not worth it. That stuff is so ephemeral.

  Matt Nix

  Writing, Winning, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

  Stephen King

  Noon, Prime, Late

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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