"When you have a movie coming out and you do interviews all day, you think 'I just want to lay down and watch ESPN highlights'."
- Director Richard Linklater to New York Magazine at the BAMCINEMAFEST where his new movie BOYHOOD is playing.
Quotes
"There are few people on this planet I have adored as much as Jimmy Garner. I cherish every moment I spent with him and relive them over and over in my head. He was a diamond."
- Actress Sally Field who starred in Murphy's Romance with James Garner. Garner received his only Oscar Nomination for his performance.
"Not surprisingly, we have seen an overwhelming surge in traffic on our website that is making it difficult for many people to file comments through our electronic comment filing system."
- FCC spokesman Kim Hart following the crash of the agency's website as it approached the Tuesday evening deadline for public comments on proposed net neutrality rules. The deadline has been extended through Friday.
"We’ve maintained for 7 months that this is a case about nothing: today, the Court agreed. This entire case was outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
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- Attorney David Albert Pierce, on the New York State Supreme Court's decision to dismiss the Seinfeld Defamation Lawsuit brought by Real Life Kramer. Pierce pays homage to fictional lawyer Jackie Childs in his declaration that the case was "outrageous, egregious, preposterous."
"Even if we only reach point 1 percent of eBay users, that’s huge for us."
- Bruno Vinciguerra, COO of Sotheby's, on yesterday's announcement of a deal with Ebay to broadcast their New York auctions starting this fall.
"“Most of us thought they would just die and go away.” "
- Randy Picker, a law professor at the University of Chicago, in an interview with Bloomberg news about Aereo's plan to operate as a cable-like provider.
"I think there's a one hundred percent chance that you'll get slimed."
- Mike Golic to Michael Strahan on ESPN's "Mike and Mike" show this morning in response to Strahan's concerns about getting slimed when he hosts the first ever Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards.
"Good television taps into the wellspring of storytelling, appealing to our deepest emotions. Only recently, however, has the story been so colorful and crowded. "
- Kate Canada Obregon, Partner, Oishii Creative writing in her Cynsiders column: Television and the Modern Family Mash-Up.
" Are you wearing leather shoes? Then shut up."
- Joan Rivers to CNN anchor Fredericka Whitfield, who had asked Rivers if she was goading PETA by wearing a fur coat on the cover of her book “Diary of a Mad Diva.”
"We tend to forget that the first coldly expedient hero to anchor an influential, long-running series named after him wasn't Tony Soprano. It was Jerry Seinfeld."
- Matt Zoller Seitz writing in the current issue of New York Magazine about Seinfeld, which debuted 25 years ago this summer.
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