"For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it."

-- Russell Lynes

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“It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.”

Source : Source: underthegunreview.net
“It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, 'How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?' And they'd say, 'Stop. Just pose.' I had a problem with that.”

Source : "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.
“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.”
“Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away;...”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144
“There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.”
“Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.”
“In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.”
“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

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