A Quote by Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. — © Fred W. Friendly
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.
Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.
We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.
If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.
I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.
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