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“To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.”

“My favorite of {Netflix's] descriptors is "chosen family." A big part of the evergreen appeal of big hits like The Office, Parks and Recreation, New Girl, 30 Rock, etc., is the way in which a bunch of ragtag misfits commit to being not just "workplace proximity associates" or roommates or friends of friends, but people who are inextricably, irremovably interwoven into one another's lives on a daily basis... For me, that's family crystallized.”

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Book:Prayers for the People: Things We Didn't Know We Could Say to God

Source: Prayers for the People: Things We Didn't Know We Could Say to God

“You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“They're academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.”

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Book:All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]

Source: All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]

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

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“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

“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

“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

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.”

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Author:Amy Ryan

“I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.”

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Author:Tara Reid

“I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.”

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Author:Shane Smith

“There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.”

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Author:David Spade

“The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.”

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Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.”

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Author:J.K. Simmons

“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.”

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Author:Jenny Slate

“Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.”

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Author:Nick Stahl

“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.”

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Author:Robert Vaughn

“When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.”

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Author:Robert Vaughn

“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”

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Author:David Walliams

“Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.”

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Author:Dylan Walsh

“If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'”

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Author:Robin Leach

“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.”

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Author:Al Franken

“30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.”

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Author:Cristin Milioti

“To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.”

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Author:Elisabeth Moss

“You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.”

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Author:Jack McBrayer

“One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.”

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Author:Glen Mazzara

“Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.”

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Author:James MacArthur

“You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.”

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Author:Elisha

“It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.”

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Author:Bruce Nash

“I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.”

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Author:Marc Cherry

“I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'”

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Author:Lara Pulver

“On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"”

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Author:Jamie Bell

“In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.”

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Author:Sam Simon

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