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“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.”

Heart Fire Television Understood Burning Appeals Charm Primitive Irresistible

Author:John Updike

“Sesame Street is the epitome of children’s television. It has continued to maintain the successful structure that was established in the beginning. Through it’s amazing research department, teaching has been made fun. This, the heart and humor works for children and adults alike, that’s why I’m very honored to be a part of it.”

Heart Children Has Beens Made Fun Successful Streets Teaching Television Research Adults Structure Department Honored Epitome Sesame Street

Author:Kevin Clash

“Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.”

Thinking Wells Heart Doe Country Whole Community Consciousness Television Tvs Isolated Communion Suggestions Vicinity

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.”

World Writing Heart Seems Fall Waiting Millions Television Poet Terrible West Staring Bombs Temporary Decline Shelter Explosions Rockets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.”

Heart Social Novel Television Serious Draws Cameras Stakes Portraiture

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.”

“There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.”

World Want Heart Shows Next Stuff Imagine Television Becoming Baseball Critics Show Business

Author:Charlie Sheen

“I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.”

People Thinking Humans Wells Looks Heart Long Stories Eye Turns Television Like Me African American Asian Turn-on Hispanic Caucasian

Author:Angela Bassett

“When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.”

World Heart Book Shows Dies Records Television Mercy Scripts Tied Heart Attack World Records Guinness

Author:Alan Dale

“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”

Heart Book Eye Past Rooms Known Television Titles Virginia Jacob Gum Chewing Woolf Chewing Gum

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.”

Thinking Heart Kind Different Film Moving Happened Talent Television Discipline Happenings Exciting Theater Film And Television Convergence

Author:Colin Callender

“Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?”

Thinking Knows Heart Important Shows Asks Fun Differences Television Materials Masters My Heart Important Things Ask Me Making A Difference Television Shows

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.”

Thinking Heart Film Bits Creative Doubt Journey Television No Doubt

Author:William Fichtner

“You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.”

Knows Heart Television Shapes Heart Attack Watching Television

Author:Robert Schimmel