Dan Harmon Quotes
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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I really like performing for people.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.