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Related There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to wat... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back ... BARRETT FOA I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let m... TREVOR MOORE Back then the shows were maybe 50 or 60 minutes, whereas now, they're like an hour and 20 minutes. W... JEFF FATT One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many... JOE KEENAN I'd like to sit back and watch. GREG BALL If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as ... SYLVIA PLATH If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as... SYLVIA PLATH If you watch a six-minute film, and you're really watching it, it can be a profound experience. But ... MATTI LESHEM I can't talk him through the drills, but he can sit back and watch it a time or two, and he gets out... LARRY EASTERWOOD If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic... SYLVIA PLATH As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit b... DARREN ARONOFSKY It?s not that I want to come back to be a savior or anything like that. I want to come back because ... ERIC DESJARDINS It was just a lame way of getting viewers to watch the show. BRYANT MCKINNIE As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to s... DARREN ARONOFSKY It was just another fun match to watch. Those two are both good scramblers. They go after it. They'r... MARK RUETTIGER To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. CHARLES CALEB COLTON To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another CHARLES CALEB COLTON It's tough. We're just going to have to start over again and take it one step at a time. Go up there... BRANDON DUBINSKY I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit ... JAMES BADGE DALE I don't want it to be 'Oh, that's the one-shot movie,' ... I don't want to show my directing. I want... LOUIS LETERRIER I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows. TAMRON HALL It's a similar thing with David Brent. David Brent is not that good at his job because he couldn't s... RICKY GERVAIS We are going to push 'SNL' back because we are doing 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' for one hour, JOE SIMPSON The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto a... MIKE BROWN Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each ... STEVEN LEVITAN The only thing I can say is, I've been through the same thing and you do come back strong, you can h... CHRIS CHELIOS Should I go up one flight of stairs and then come back down, or should I go down one flight of stair... JAROD KINTZ Don't just sit back, kickback and watch the world get Bush-whacked. SMASHMOUTH The life you thought you killed, sit back and watch me live TANICA S HALL I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We want to keep on playing. We don't want to go home (for the winter). We want to try to make it bac... BRANDON PHILLIPS I'm not one to sit back and do nothing. We are looking at every possible solution to fix this. JOE WINTER Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ev... ERICA DURANCE It's a completely different show than what we did in the '70s. All you have to do is watch and you'l... MARIE OSMOND Everyone of them is staying, ... They dont want to go back. They have told me that. AMY COLLINS I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it ... YAYA HAN It was hard for those players to sit back and watch. They were ready to get back on the court by the... JOHN ARAGON When ignorance masquerades itself as intelligence, there's not much one can do but sit back and watc... FATHOM That was real big. We've been trying to get the old David Lawson back. It was good to see him come t... JOSH KINDRED I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-h... KAREN DUFFY The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back. DAVE CHAPPELLE At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then th... CAROLAYNE HOLLEY Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes. AARON LAZAR You just want to play enough so you feel you're improving. A half an hour every other day is better ... JANET HEUKESHOVEN You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather ... SAM MENDES This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and ... DON WILDMON [To obtain each week's footage, Greenlight producers David Beynon or Chris Shaw make the long trek f... CHRIS SHAW Pierce County's back in the thick of it. JACK HILL He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS Im going to Invest in a Turtle shell so i dont have to Watch MY Back. add ME to the Ninja Turtles Li... KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) There's nothing like pulling up to a stump and putting in a jig and having a male hit it. 'Cause you... RABBIT ROGERS In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - y... NATHAN PARSONS College football is the sport where 80, 000 people show up to watch a Poll Bowl, half of them wearin... DAN JENKINS Rather than rest being the best remedy for back pain, for example, research now shows it can actuall... ALAN JOHNSON Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. SUDIE BACK She came to live with me in Albany. She really enjoyed that, she got to see some of the grandchildre... FLORENCE BACK Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire
it. SUDIE BACK She loved having a large family. She has 56 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-grea... FLORENCE BACK She was an excellent cook. FLORENCE BACK It was hard work. We only went to school when it rained. If it wasn't raining, we were in the fields... FLORENCE BACK They just thought they would make a good match. FLORENCE BACK After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w... FLORENCE BACK Sometimes you step in to give someone advice and they think you’re telling them what to do. Then y... KAORU SHINMON If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than... BERNARD MANNING Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a w... WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA The best way to get your message out is word of mouth. The most important thing is to have (viewers)... CHRIS CARLISLE To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you migh... CALVIN JOHNSON It's a bunch of cool things that look huge on a small stage but it's exciting for the kids because i... MATT SHADOW It's one thing to want, desire, and love the man that's mine (GO AHEAD, FEEL FREE)... but it's anoth... ARACELY ALDAMA I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with les... BRUTON SMITH Text to Buy gives our passionate viewers yet another way to connect to their favorite Bravo shows. JASON KLARMAN Over time, viewers will come back to 'Millionaire' in higher levels than they are watching today, ROBERT IGER I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're... ROBIN WRIGHT I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best way to get your message out is word of mouth. The most important thing is to have someone [... CHRIS CARLISLE We're a great team, not just one or two players. ... If one goes down, another steps up. We bounce r... YOLANDA GRIFFITH They've been our one and two since last year, and we need them to get back in shape. I thought Krist... DAN CORBIN The harvest lasts through November, so we've got plenty of time to sit back and wait and see. EDWARD ORTEGA Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you... TAYLOR SWIFT We were one of the very first people way back in '69 to do fully acoustic and electric sets within t... GRAHAM NASH Who will want to go that far to reach the restaurant? Then you will have to go back to return to the... BEN GOFORTH Don't lie to yourself? SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I just want to get this thing healed up so we can get back going in the second half. JIM THOME We always have a good time there and always make a point to come back. We wished we had the same kin... DAVE PETERS I've thought about going back to school. EMILY VANCAMP We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that ... LUCY MACK SMITH The thing for us is to get out of this four-hour mess, ... and get back to our ballpark. RAY KING Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th... URSULA K. LE GUIN You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep pu... TOM HIDDLESTON This is not a team to lean back and rely on just one or two counter-attacks each half. GUUS HIDDINK Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of th... MITCHELL REISS We were ready for anything, but Crestwood is a good team. You can't sit back against them because th... BARRY GILDEA Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour sho... STEVEN VAN ZANDT You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced eac... HOLLY BLACK There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. Yo... WILL ROGERS Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be nex... DASHANNE STOKES Craig has done everything we expected since taking over 'The Late Late Show,' ... He has attracted m... LESLIE MOONVES
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WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ... WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec... WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w... WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com... WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ... WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches. PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human. PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I... PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu... PIERCE BROSNAN There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o... CHARLIE PIERCE Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. PIERCE BROSNAN Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked i... TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Wh... TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve... TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief. TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think... TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she... TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job. TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro... TAMORA PIERCE I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war. PIERCE BROWN Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time. TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri... TAMORA PIERCE You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh... PIERCE BROWN