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“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

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Author:Chuck Lorre

“I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.”

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Author:Chyler Leigh

“I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.”

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Author:Jane Lynch

“You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?”

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Author:Phil Lynott

“True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.”

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Author:Kent McCord

“Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.”

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Author:Marla Maples

“For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.”

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Author:Natalie Merchant

“I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.”

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Author:Patrick Macnee

“When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.”

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Author:Richard Meier

“I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.”

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Author:Rob Mariano

“Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.”

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Author:Vic Morrow

“I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.”

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Author:Vic Morrow

“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.”

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Author:Amaury Nolasco

“The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.”

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Author:Azar Nafisi

“Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.”

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Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.”

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Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.”

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Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.”

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Author:Dave Navarro

“I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the Spread show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.”

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Author:Dave Navarro

“Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.”

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Author:Lucas Neff

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

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Author:Mojo Nixon

“I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.”

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Author:Nichelle Nichols

“I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I want to show how strong I am from my roots.”

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Author:Edward James Olmos

“I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.”

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Author:John O'Hurley

“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”

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Author:John Otway

“With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.”

Character Shows Fans Like You Assuming Come Up Up To You

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

“White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.”

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Author:Patrice O'Neal

“I don't think I could do a reality show, no.”

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Author:Rita Ora

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