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• I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

  Charles Stross

  Drama, Tv Shows, Watches

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• L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.

  James Ellroy

  Moving, Home, Writing

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.

  Ed Westwick

  Real, Careers, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.

  Bun B

  Girl, White, Littles

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

  Guy Garvey

  Media, Luck, Elbows

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

  Tucker Carlson

  Soccer, Team, Storm

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.

  Mark Spitz

  Exercise, Long, Use

  Interview with Tim Cheung, hk.asiatatler.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

  Wanda Sykes

  Tv Shows, Actors, Littles

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• You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

  Charlie Hunnam

  People, Silence, Complaining

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks DEADFALL, SONS OF ANARCHY Season 5, PACIFIC RIM, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for WB and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

  Michael Brandt

  Writing, Tv Shows, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.

  Michael Brandt

  Emotional, Knowing, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

  Suge Knight

  Song, Block, Rapper

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

  Alan Ritchson

  Priorities, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Men, Speak English

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

  Alan Dale

  Tv Shows, Giving, Gigs

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To me, you know, I'm obsessed with it. Like I think maybe if I wasn't an actor I'd be a litigator. But, you know, it's always just shocking to see what happens in real life because most of the things that you see on those trials if you tried to write them into a TV series you would say oh gosh, no one would believe that would ever happen. But yet they always do in real life.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Several months ago, out of the blue, a company named "Cingular" started sending me bills. I had never heard of Cingular, and I honestly did not know what these bills were for, so I put them in the pile where I keep documents that I intend to scrutinize more carefully later on, after my death. Then I started seeing TV commercials for Cingular, but of course they did not make it clear what Cingular is, because the First Rule of Modern Advertising is: "Never reveal what you are advertising."

  Dave Barry

  Blue, Bills, Months

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• I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

  Douglas Coupland

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

  James Poniewozik

  Reality, Careers, Choices

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• Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Leader, Visionaries, Occupation

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• If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

  Sam Ewing

  Ideas, Brain, Sound

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• When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.

  Naomi Campbell

  Years, People, Television

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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