Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
Cathleen Schine
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PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI We are yet to receive the High Court order and will take necessary steps after that.
TV RAMACHANDRAN I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's...
OREN PELI Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects t...
AJA NAOMI KING Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not go...
RONDA ROUSEY It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world...
BORIS JOHNSON To say babies are watching TV anyway, so let's give them something good to watch just doesn't make g...
MICHAEL RICH The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Go...
TODD HAYNES Most of the big UTEP basketball games were NCAA tournament games. We were on TV because we had succe...
BOB STULL In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
TINY TIM Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.
ERICA DURANCE TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
TOM BROKAW It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world...
BORIS JOHNSON I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because...
SAM TRAMMELL I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
CLAY AIKEN I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was t...
CRAIG ROBERTS They're going over to do the good things you don't see on TV.
SUSAN ALLEN It gives kids something to do, because there is not a whole lot to do in State College. The skate pa...
ERIC MYERS I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good...
DAVE ATTELL He's a damned good player. He's one of those guys who makes you go turn the TV on just to watch him.
LAWRENCE TAYLOR Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV
DAN CASTELLANETA I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do...
ALAN BALL I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
LATOYA LONDON The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been ...
JAMES LAFFERTY I know he wants to and I'm sure he will look impressive on TV. He's going to go all out to look good...
DONNA BROOKS Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about...
AILEEN QUINN I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. They didn't want to see good things...
DAVID CARUSO Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often over...
MATT GROENING I am not crazy. It's the TV that's crazy. Aren't you, TV?
HOMER SIMPSON TV is not a baby sitter.
LUIS GUZMAN TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDAL With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.
JOE PENNY We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.
DAVID ANDERS One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich an...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crash...
CATHLEEN SCHINE In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inq...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and ove...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Dear Goat,
How does one fall in love? Do you trip? Do you stumble, lose your balance and ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and s...
CATHLEEN SCHINE 'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
CATHLEEN SCHINE A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
CATHLEEN SCHINE I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there...
CATHLEEN SCHINE 'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.
CATHLEEN SCHINE 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its ...
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CATHLEEN SCHINE Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definite...
CATHLEEN SCHINE For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.
CATHLEEN SCHINE I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
CATHLEEN SCHINE Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.
CATHLEEN SCHINE We are not saying TV is to blame for this phenomenon. But research is indicating that TV has an impa...
DALE KUNKEL When You Reward Bad Behavior Followed By Good Behavior, What You Get Is More Bad Behavior Followed B...
DONALD LYNN FROST I feel really grateful to have been part of what I considered a good TV show.
BRETT BUTLER The good news is if you're an Eastern Maine fan, you're going to see all your favorite teams on TV.
LOU MORIN We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the pol...
ENRICO COLANTONI It's not downloaded. It's real TV just like you get at home.
GRAEME HUTCHINSON Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
EDDIE TRUNK The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
ANON. If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succ...
WADAH KHANFAR We feel good about where we are, but you're never finished. The business constantly evolves. We are ...
MARK RICHARDSON It's not downloaded; it's not looped; it's real TV just like you get at home.
GRAEME HUTCHINSON It's (Internet TV) is only just starting to happen. It never worked before as streaming technology w...
MALCOLM BIRD I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised&...
DAN GILROY They've been at the forefront of making meaningless but entertaining TV for a while, and 'Super Girl...
HUNG HUANG If there's any good that's come out of this, it's that people realize that everybody, whether they'r...
JAMEY SINGLETON I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's alway...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he he...
KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR I like TV ? I don't love TV. I would rather be the action, not reporting the action.
PAUL AZINGER I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
HILL HARPER I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But...
JOEL OSTEEN There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has al...
URSULA K. LEGUIN It seems like a good cause. I've been watching it on TV and, it makes me want to help.
ED CLARK Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell...
OGDEN NASH I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too...
KELLY BROOK You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavi...
GAVIN NEWSOM As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
MARC ALMOND Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
JERRY SEINFELD I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ...
SIMON COWELL This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
MARVIN MINSKY Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel...
JEFFREY DONOVAN It's rarely a good idea to divide a small business. It's not like dividing up Time Warner where some...
GIL MCBRIDE I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress...
TAYLOR SWIFT The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the tele...
JORGE RAMOS We're like nomads walking around from TV to TV.
BRIAN JORDAN Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?
JOHN RINGO There was such a camaraderie. We gave each other Olympic 1972 pins from our countries. It made you f...
GARY CONELLY I watch on occasion, just to see what is going on. I have never really been a fan of a TV show. I do...
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