#tv

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#conversation #hope #movies #pop-culture #tv-shows

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love? ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#couples #dinner #distanced #making-love #man

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#both #ever #humbling #i #little

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

— Shawn Ryan

#finding #happier #i #love #makes

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

#culture #manipulative #momentary #popular #popular culture

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#broadcast #like #tv #years

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#part #same #shows #storyline #tv

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#feel #how #part #scary #six

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#lot #news #obsessed #sort #syndrome

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ↗

— Joey Adams

#any #apart #exercise #fact #far