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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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Your mind is just like a TV. If you don’t like what is being shown on TV, simply change the channel. If you don’t like what you are thinking about, simply change your thoughts.

TV Mind Change Channel
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Drama is for TV, not for real life. Don’t play a part in someone else’s episode in which they are the only star. Stay clear of Gossip

Drama TV Episode Stay clear
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Assertion Beauty Flowers Proud
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Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

Someone Acts Way On tv
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Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Combined File Film Film And TV
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I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Attention Better Details Get
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

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I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Animated Broadway Came Coming
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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Else Episodes Going Good
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I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

Best Dance Hours ILove
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Actor Comedy Cool Dramatic
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
Behind Better Creative Just
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
About Camera First Location
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

About Best Control Everything
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When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

Doing Hard Involved Man
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

Home Out Playing Rather
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Bug Buttons Death Going
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Always Been Found Marriage
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One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Back Before Doing Film
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Around Attraction Been Chance
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Accept Burden Buy Front
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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Acting Age Great Job
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All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

Basically Part Same Shows
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Demands Ending Just Know
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What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds

About Bothers Me Minds
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Bookcase Lovely Please Throw
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Another Business Foolish Get
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TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Army Band Been Children
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

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Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Did How Know Makes
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My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

Anything Funnier Life Real
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There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Element Everything Eyes TV
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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Film Games Nature Options
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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Allow Father Get He
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TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

Agenda Because Real Sole
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Art Brings Depend Good
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Never Be perfect Overrated Boring
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To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.

Man's attention Stand Front Don't move
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Where two or three actors are gathered on TV. Nonstop Drama is expected.
Two or three Drama TV Nonstop
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Now we carry out mini genocides and massacres and only engage each other only through xenophobia and DSTV.

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