Tom Shales Quotes

'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1948

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Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

Jill Scott

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There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.

John Curran

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We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.

John Landgraf

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I'm not really shy.

Robert Picardo

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I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Sue Grafton

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I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

Chelsea Cain

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

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I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'

Antoine Fuqua

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I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

Swizz Beatz

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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

Susan B. Anthony

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