“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.” ImportantHomePoliticalNightParentNewsDinnerEvery Night Author:Al Franken
“News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.” PeopleWayFirstsMeanChildrenWarBodySchoolNamesRaceTvsBattleNewsRacismSouthDinnerGradesVietnamHouseholdBloodyComing BackReally MeanRiotAlabamaGrades In SchoolRace Riots Author:Jello Biafra
“My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNewsTablesRadioDinnerDnaDinner TableRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.” FeelsTodayMarriedNewsRoseEverydayDinnerStorytellerFenceHandsomeMonologues Author:Viola Davis
“Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.” NextOne DayNewsDinnerBreakfastLunchMailBellsNext Day Book:When the Emperor Was Divine Source: When the Emperor Was Divine