Tvs Quotes - Page 15

• I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Couple, Tv Shows, Done

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• After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

  Justin Chadwick

  Opportunity, College, Acting

  "INTERVIEW | “The First Grader” Director Aims to Uplift and Make You Think". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Spiffy is a free-loading deadbeat kitty who sits around on my couch, watches TV all day, and eats all the Triscuits.

  Jade Puget

  Watches, Couches, Kitties

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• My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

  Dexter Fletcher

  Teacher, Guy, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.

  Emily Rios

  Friday, Night, Light

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• The UK needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

  Eric Fellner

  Class, Space, Growth

  "Pinewood Studios submits revised plans for controversial expansion" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I like how small you can be on TV.

  Indira Varma

  "Indira Varma Interview HUMAN TARGET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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• When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

  Gina Holden

  Character, Female, Watching Tv

  "Gina Holden Talks Syfy’s JULES VERNE'S MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US.

  Julian Ovenden

  Tv Shows, Shows, Downloads

  "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Konnor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  Damian Loeb

  Black And White, Color, People

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• Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

  Bruce Willis

  Dinner, Feels, Knows

  "Fictional character: Korben Dallas". "The Fifth Element", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

  Art Spiegelman

  Yelling

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• That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Memories, Home, Bliss

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Thinking, Yellow, Journalism

  "The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media".

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• I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

  Andy Richter

  Hate, Reading, Magazines

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

  Mary Harron

  Years, Television, Wonder

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Directors

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Directors

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Critics say it's illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It's also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn't born in this country.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Country, Hair

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• I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, People, Nervous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 16, 2012

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• On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Halloween, Night

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• I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

  Adam Yauch

  Song, Ads, Sells

  "Song: "Putting Shame in Your Game" ("Hello Nasty")". www.theguardian.com. 1998.

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• You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.

  Bob Saget

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  "The R-rated comedy makes its comeback". The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 01, 2005.

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• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  Eric Mazur

  Watches, Marathon, Process

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• Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

  Garrison Keillor

  Talking, People, Parent

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.9, Penguin

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