All Quotes

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
‐‐ Tina Brown

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.
‐‐ Emily Rios

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.
‐‐ Martin Parr

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.
‐‐ Shane Smith

TV news is not very instructive.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
‐‐ Aaron Brown

TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
‐‐ Gail Porter

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
‐‐ Neil Postman

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.
‐‐ Josh Holloway

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
‐‐ Norman Lear

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
‐‐ Raymond Arroyo

TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.
‐‐ Melissa Rauch

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
‐‐ Tom Skerritt

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
‐‐ Roger Avary

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
‐‐ Euripides

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.
‐‐ Alexander Brome

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.
‐‐ Harriet Tubman

Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
‐‐ Jack Dorsey

Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own.
‐‐ Megan Amram

Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
‐‐ Steve Martin

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.
‐‐ Tom Ford

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
‐‐ Robin Williams

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.
‐‐ Mario Batali

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.
‐‐ Melody Beattie

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
‐‐ Ed Koch

Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
‐‐ John Fusco

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
‐‐ Helen Vendler