We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?.. view

By: Joyce Maynard

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story... view

By: Pete Townshend

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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions... view

By: Rick Moody

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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing... view

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility... view

By: Hedda Hopper

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

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I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time... view

By: Tom Berenger

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Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along... view

By: Nikki Sixx

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The best things arrive on time... view

By: Dorothy Gilman

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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react... view

By: Derek Jacobi

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Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to... view

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff... view

By: Peter Hammill

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