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“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

Facts Loss Grief Known Television Periods Drama Moved Chaos Intense Narrative Internals Friendly Chaotic Static Moved On

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.”

Character Television Periods Exploring Consistency

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.”

Long Character Able Form Love Is Television Periods Format Long Periods Of Time

Author:Anson Mount

“Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.”

Children Use Kids Watches Media Television Amount Periods Massive Obesity Correlation Obese

Book:Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong

Source: Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong

“I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.”

Firsts Girl Television Periods

Author:Courteney Cox

“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.”

Shows Film Culture Numbers Growing Up Growing Television Huge Periods Twenties Mythology Bunch Television Shows Roaring Underworld Roaring Twenties

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.”

May Two Character Film Three Opportunity Hours Differences Television Periods Confined Film And Television

Author:Elijah Wood

“I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.”

Character Wanted Audience Television Periods Branches American Television

Author:Joseph Morgan

“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.”

“Working in television it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.”

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Author:Christina Ricci

“There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.”

Position Television Color Periods Position Of Power

Author:Gina Torres

“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.”

Years Wonder Five Television Tvs Periods My Friends Exciting Stuck Hated Thirty Five Years Researchers Exciting Things

Author:Mary Harron

“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.”

Firsts Lasts Form Nice Childhood Television Brother Periods Radio Comic Comedian Decent Anarchy Last Day Marx Brothers

Author:George Carlin

“I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.”

Thinking World Needs Should Stories Television Periods Variety

Author:Aeriel Miranda