Scott M. Gimple Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.
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It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.
