Vincent Canby Quotes

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby

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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Television
  • Hype

• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Sports
  • Television
  • News

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tax
  • April
  • Accounting

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Way
  • Europe
  • June

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
  • Man
  • Way
  • Religious

• I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Television

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Way
  • Like
  • Fox

• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • Way
  • Diplomacy
  • Nicest

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  

  William Rivers Pitt
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Critics

• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Bitter

• We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Way
  • Television
  • April