#ram

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#elegant #hard #hard work #look #make

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#everything #found #grammar #harmony #language

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#anybody #come #course #critic #dark

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. ↗

— James Wolcott

#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#bets #changes #comedy #drama #mass

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #different #entities #like #management

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#having #heart #house #like #network

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during