Lauren Graham Quotes
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.Lauren Graham
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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.
Yael Stone -
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 -
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Pamela Anderson -
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 -
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
Kajol -
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Jack Lemmon
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
Madchen Amick -
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond -
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater -
My interests are not really with television, per se.
Gale Harold -
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula -
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.
Sally Field
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
Yuji Horii -
Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
Barry Diller -
Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
Gary Coleman -
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin -
Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
T. J. Miller -
We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.
Mick Cornett
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A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.
Ryan Adams -
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost -
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Lauren Graham