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My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.
There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.
The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
Sometimes losing a series regular, if you're going to replace them with another series regular, that will put added pressure on your budget.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.
Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'
To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.
If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
One of the things I love about Joel and Ethan Coen's movies is that there is this element of the ethereal and the mythic that they play with.
I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.
It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.
I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.
I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25.
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.
There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.
Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?
My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.
I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.
I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.
You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.
Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)
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.
I believe I got Lyme disease for a reason and if that is to help bring awareness, that is my mission and I will do the best that I can to do that.
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.
Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.
I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.