Lee Siegel Quotes

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

Lee Siegel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1957

Topics

ExpectationsAmericanComfortRole

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

Joe Lhota

BookReadingAlwaysFavorite

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.

John Hickenlooper

RelaxBorderDeepImmigrationYou

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

Tom Noonan

PeopleKeyBad PeopleBadHuman

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Robert Fisk

AmericanNeverSoldiersBritishBeen

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all of that.

Rose Leslie

GameRealityMagicYouAnything

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production.

Michel Gondry

DreamDoneNothingWorseThan

Night was running ahead of itself.

Jorge Amado

NightAheadRunningItself

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

China Chow

WorkWhile

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Brendon Urie

MyselfWantWriteAlwaysSurprising

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

MeWorldThinkingWayOutUsed

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

Anushka Shetty

InterestingGladGettingFilms

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Marshall McLuhan

RedSingingWolfHoodRidingModern

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