"Television is a triumph of equipment over people,"

-- Fred Allen

#People Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Television Quotes

“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”
“I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.”
“The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.”
“Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.”
“Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 27, 2016
“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.”
“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”

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