Tv Tropes Discworld Quotes

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems. ~ Matthew Weiner

If you don't feel a true passion through work, you can't do it. It's not possible for me. I've never done TV. I've never done commercials. I've never done anything for money. I can't do it. I wish I could. It would be easier. ~ Daniel Espinosa

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. ~ Dido Armstrong

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with. ~ Shawn Ryan

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.' ~ Rachel Tucker

My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair. ~ James Vance

From that high up, language or the lack of it didn't matter much. The swirling currents of people were way better than anything on TV. Even on cable. Except, possibly, the Armenian Channel. ~ Julia Claiborne Johnson

In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn't moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn't swallow away. "Rory" I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn't find it. And he didn't answer. ~ Kate Chisman

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV. ~ Linus Roache

You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying to interact with it would be akin to trying to interact with a show on your TV: sure, you can turn it off or change the channel, but I wouldn't expect the actors to suddenly stop and talk to you directly. ~ Loyd Auerbach

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. ~ Robert MacNeil

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. ~ Bryant McGill

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it. ~ Simon Cowell

I've seen trans people in movies and TV shows, but judging by how unrealistic and shitty bi characters tend to be, I'm gonna assume I know nothing. So what's okay for me to ask? ~ Meredith Russo

What do you do when you're bored? You don't have
internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am? ~ Colleen Hoover

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it. ~ Jamie Clayton

It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears. ~ Gabby Rivera

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising. ~ Mark E. Hyman

The music in a song isn't just simply the musical notes. It's the space in between them. A song without strategically placed rests, or any rests at all, isn't a song or music. Without the rests, without the timing, it's nothing. It's just noise. It's just TV. ~ Todd Travis

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer. ~ Franka Potente

I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates new content in the physical world. TV created new content, but it didn't mean that radio disappeared. ~ Donna Dubinsky

We love doing commercial and TV show work. ~ Gene Ween

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?'

'You wouldn't understand,' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.' ~ Rowan McBride

If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job. ~ Charles Barkley

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV. ~ Sally Kellerman

The movies are gray
The TV is black
The horses are running
Please bring me some food ~ Heinz Doofenshmirtz

That night on TV, I saw the tattoo I wished my life had warranted. If you have not known suffering, love me. A Russian murderer beat me to it. ~ Jenny Offill

Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows."
"That's mostly done already, Harry."
"Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway. ~ Jim Butcher

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV. ~ Chad Lowe

Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets. ~ Daniel Tosh

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities. ~ David Corbett

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field. ~ Joe Green

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts. ~ Anna Quindlen

I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself. ~ Brie Larson