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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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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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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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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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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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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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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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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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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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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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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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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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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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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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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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.