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Quotes about Television

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544 Written Quotes

Television is the triumph of machine over people. Votes: 7

Fred Allen

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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Votes: 7

Ann Landers

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Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... Votes: 5

Michael Franti

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. Votes: 5

Laurence J. Peter

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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. Votes: 5

Chuck Palahniuk

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I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland. Votes: 5

Newton N. Minow

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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better. Votes: 5

Alistair Cooke

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They call television a medium because nothing's well done. Votes: 4

Goodman Ace

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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. Votes: 4

Alfred Hitchcock

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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Votes: 4

Bill Hicks

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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. Votes: 4

Charles Barkley

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Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. Votes: 4

Paddy Chayefsky

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. Votes: 4

Gore Vidal

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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Votes: 4

Alfred Hitchcock

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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. Votes: 4

Alfred Hitchcock

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How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? Votes: 4

Rod Serling

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Votes: 4

Groucho Marx

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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. Votes: 4

David Frost

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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. Votes: 4

Alfred Hitchcock

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. Votes: 4

T. S. Eliot

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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Votes: 4

Kurt Vonnegut

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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Votes: 4

Ray Bradbury

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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Votes: 4

Salvador Dali

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Television wasn't prestigious. Votes: 3

Dorothy Malone

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Television is intensely personal. Votes: 3

Jessica Savitch

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Television speeded everything up. Votes: 3

Ruth Handler

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Television can only destroy. Votes: 3

Paul Virilio

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Television, I would say, Votes: 3

William S. Paley

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Television is a passivity. Votes: 3

John Green

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Television is a vast wasteland. Votes: 3

Newton N. Minow

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Television is simply automated daydreaming. Votes: 3

Lee Loevinger

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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. Votes: 3

Dennis Potter

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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena. Votes: 3

Josephine Hart

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Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. Votes: 3

Homer

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Television leaves no external scars. Votes: 3

Robert A. Heinlein

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Television is completely another medium. Votes: 3

Marina Abramovic

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Television is the third parent. Votes: 3

R. Buckminster Fuller

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I humbly apologise for reality Television. Votes: 3

Cilla Black

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Television isn't my career. Business is. Votes: 3

Fran Tarkenton

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Television deprives children of their imaginations. Votes: 3

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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Television is such an evolving medium. Votes: 3

Chris Pratt

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Television is democracy at its ugliest. Votes: 3

Paddy Chayefsky

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Television is a young person's medium. Votes: 3

Bernard Cornwell

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Television is such a mediocre medium. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Montgomery

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Television is bubble-gum for the mind Votes: 3

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Television and I grew up together. Votes: 3

Roger Ailes

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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium. Votes: 3

Dan Harmon

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Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. Votes: 3

Eric Kripke

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Television, cable, features are always out there. Votes: 3

Kyle Chandler

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Television... is not a substitute for print. Votes: 3

Walter Cronkite

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Television has tremendous power over our lives. Votes: 3

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Television can be a very fickle place Votes: 3

Megyn Kelly

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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion. Votes: 3

Larry Gelbart

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Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Votes: 3

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Television is where I cut my teeth. Votes: 3

Idris Elba

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Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. Votes: 3

Claire Danes

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The Television is the monster of hell. Votes: 3

Lester Roloff

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Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics. Votes: 3

Norman Mailer

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Television's not going read stories to you. Votes: 3

Kurt Loder

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Television is a triumph of equipment over people, Votes: 3

Fred Allen

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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. Votes: 3

Shimon Peres

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Television is the box they buried entertainment in. Votes: 3

Bob Hope

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Television is the medium of the 20th century. Votes: 3

Hugh Downs

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Television. That's where movies go when they die. Votes: 3

Bob Hope

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Television will do anything for a rating... anything! Votes: 3

Paddy Chayefsky

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Television has raised writing to a new low. Votes: 3

Samuel Goldwyn

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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. Votes: 3

Terry Wogan

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Television is for appearing on, not looking at. Votes: 3

Noel Coward

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Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down. Votes: 3

Hugh Hefner

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Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. Votes: 3

Graydon Carter

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Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. Votes: 3

William Westmoreland

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Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy. Votes: 3

Richard M. Nixon

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The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit Votes: 3

P. J. O'Rourke

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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? Votes: 3

Alex Turner

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Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. Votes: 3

Dominic Monaghan

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Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had. Votes: 3

Kevin O'Leary

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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy. Votes: 3

Richard N. Haass

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Television is a service, but it's also a business. Votes: 3

Megyn Kelly

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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. Votes: 3

Noel Coward

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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. Votes: 3

Paul Erdos

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It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way. Votes: 3

Conan O'Brien

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I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older. Votes: 3

John Tesh

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Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. Votes: 3

Kurt Loder

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Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere. Votes: 3

Mort Sahl

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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. Votes: 3

David Strathairn

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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world. Votes: 3

Lucille Ball

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Television is so much about continuing to work with people. Votes: 3

Mitchell Hurwitz

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Votes: 3

Art Buchwald

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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Votes: 3

Fred Allen

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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. Votes: 3

Steven Spielberg

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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not. Votes: 3

Jim Henson

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Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures. Votes: 3

Mark S. Fowler

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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Votes: 3

Paddy Chayefsky

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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. Votes: 3

Bill Moyers

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Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system. Votes: 3

Lauren Zalaznick

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Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. Votes: 3

Paul Fleischman

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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone. Votes: 3

Martin Freeman

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Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. Votes: 3

Christine Lahti

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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. Votes: 3

Michael Gambon

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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films. Votes: 3

Michael Gambon

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Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. Votes: 3

E. B. White

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Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops. Votes: 3

Megyn Kelly

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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium. Votes: 3

William S. Paley

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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. Votes: 3

Jessica Savitch

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Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. Votes: 3

Matt Drudge

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Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. Votes: 3

Steven Spielberg

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Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. Votes: 3

Michael O'Donoghue

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Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy. Votes: 3

Heston Blumenthal

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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. Votes: 3

Leonard Maltin

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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. Votes: 3

John Lennon

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Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Puck

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Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore. Votes: 3

Tim Roth

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On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. Votes: 3

Marc Maron

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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. Votes: 3

Edwin Newman

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Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children. Votes: 3

Paul Weyrich

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Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. Votes: 3

David Caruso

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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter. Votes: 3

Neil Oliver

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Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. Votes: 3

C. P. Scott

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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. Votes: 3

C. P. Scott

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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. Votes: 3

A. A. Gill

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A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad. Votes: 3

Robert A. Heinlein

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Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them. Votes: 3

Ken Dodd

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Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. Votes: 3

Fred W. Friendly

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Television â a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. Votes: 3

Ernie Kovacs

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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Votes: 3

Orson Welles

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In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. Votes: 2

Marilyn Manson

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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Votes: 2

Milton Berle

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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. Votes: 2

Phil Daniels

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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation. Votes: 2

Donald Trump

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Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! Votes: 2

Dirk Benedict

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Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. Votes: 2

Laura Marano

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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? Votes: 2

Federico Fellini

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The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. Votes: 2

Krzysztof Kieslowski

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I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Votes: 2

Groucho Marx

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You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan. Votes: 2

Mike White

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I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white. Votes: 2

Anthony Bourdain

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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective. Votes: 2

Patti Davis

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Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light. Votes: 2

Andrew Weil

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I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. Votes: 2

Sukarno

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The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before. Votes: 2

Seth Godin

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Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another. Votes: 2

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. Votes: 2

Bernie Sanders

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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read. Votes: 2

Beverly Cleary

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Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots. Votes: 2

Alan Moore

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I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great. Votes: 2

Stephen Amell

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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.' Votes: 2

Douglas Rushkoff

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It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' Votes: 2

Curtis Stone

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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded. Votes: 2

Will Self

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What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. Votes: 2

David Gerrold

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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. Votes: 2

David Bowie

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I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television. Votes: 1

Courteney Cox

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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. Votes: 1

John Mason Brown

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Isn't television glamourous? Votes: 0

Adam Savage

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I don't watch television. Votes: 0

Ray Walston

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I don't watch television. Votes: 0

William Shatner

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I love uplifting television. Votes: 0

Rebecca Romijn

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I think television defeats ventriloquism. Votes: 0

Paul Winchell

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All television is children's television. Votes: 0

Richard Adler

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oh how television diminishes everything. Votes: 0

Nancy Mitford

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American television really is pathetic. Votes: 0

Brian Eno

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Success begets more in television. Votes: 0

Grant Tinker

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Infinitely more taboos, on television. Votes: 0

Rod Serling

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I distrust all television doctors. Votes: 0

Seth MacFarlane

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My television is the tabernacle. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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I don't watch much television. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Masturbation is the thinking man's television. Votes: 0

Christopher Hampton

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Let me complain-it's good for television. Votes: 0

Phil Hellmuth

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There are great characters on television. Votes: 0

Penelope Ann Miller

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Lawns are a form of television Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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I was raised on NBC television. Votes: 0

Dan Harmon

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We stand or fall by television. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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Everything was on television last night Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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There is no dignity in television. Votes: 0

Adam Savage

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I want to make smart television. Votes: 0

Michael Ironside

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Movies are movies, television is television. Votes: 0

Dirk Benedict

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I speak the language of television. Votes: 0

Randy Falco

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I don't watch that much television. Votes: 0

Bob Newhart

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Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Votes: 0

Fred Allen

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Sooner or later, everything turns into television. Votes: 0

J. G. Ballard

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I've raised my daughter with no television. Votes: 0

Natalie Merchant

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There's a lot a great television nowadays. Votes: 0

Mark Wahlberg

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However little television you watch, watch less. Votes: 0

David McCullough

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I watch so much television, it's embarrassing. Votes: 0

Nina Arianda

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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. Votes: 0

Peter Sellers

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Getting into television was a total fluke. Votes: 0

Sandra Bullock

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But reality television is here to stay. Votes: 0

Cilla Black

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This isn't brain surgery; it's just television. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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There are no rules in live television. Votes: 0

Harsha Bhogle

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I got an early education from television. Votes: 0

Debra Wilson

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My fame is due to broadcast television. Votes: 0

John Hodgman

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I don't watch a lot of television. Votes: 0

Edie Falco

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I think looks do matter on television. Votes: 0

Joy Behar

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I don't watch a lot of television. Votes: 0

Cameron Mackintosh

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I'm very wary of news on television. Votes: 0

Val Kilmer

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I love doing both theater and television. Votes: 0

Andrew Rannells

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I do not watch television, never have. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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In television, the creator is really the voice. Votes: 0

Tony Goldwyn

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Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale. Votes: 0

Honor Blackman

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Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural. Votes: 0

Anthony Bourdain

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My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.' Votes: 0

Martin Parr

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The glory of American television is Dennis Franz. Votes: 0

Hugh Laurie

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Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television. Votes: 0

Kelly Clarkson

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'American Idol' has changed the face of television. Votes: 0

Jennifer Hudson

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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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Instead, I watch myself get shot on television. Votes: 0

Suzanne Collins

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Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. Votes: 0

Jeph Loeb

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I think musicians should stay off television generally. Votes: 0

Sufjan Stevens

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I'm probably the biggest reality television star living. Votes: 0

Janice Dickinson

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Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television. Votes: 0

John Mulaney

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I learned how to speak English watching television. Votes: 0

Azita Ghanizada

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I want to bring more gymnastics on television. Votes: 0

Shannon Miller

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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme Votes: 0

Paul Muldoon

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I have no television - I hate it. Votes: 0

Patricia Highsmith

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I feel like I'm part of television history. Votes: 0

Henry Ian Cusick

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All you see on television are debased images. Votes: 0

Prince

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I can't stand to see myself on television. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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I find reality television to be so delectable. Votes: 0

Lizzy Caplan

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I have Netflix, but I don't watch television. Votes: 0

Jeffrey DeMunn

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The future of American film lies on television. Votes: 0

David Hare

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What a wonderful time for women on television. Votes: 0

Julianna Margulies

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If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television. Votes: 0

Geraldo Rivera

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Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces. Votes: 0

Cyril Cusack

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There was only so much television you could do. Votes: 0

Jackie Cooper

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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980 Votes: 0

Julian Bond

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Every television show you go on is a choice. Votes: 0

Joan Rivers

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Democracy means free television, not good television, but free. Votes: 0

Johnny Carson

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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. Votes: 0

Calvin Trillin

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I don't have television so I don't watch TV. Votes: 0

Paul Wesley

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To me, torture would be watching sports on television. Votes: 0

Quentin Tarantino

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The Simpsons is the best thing on American television. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television. Votes: 0

David Bowie

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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. Votes: 0

Daniel J. Boorstin

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I can say that. I have a television show. Votes: 0

Daniel Tosh

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I watch a lot of television. I always have. Votes: 0

Aaron Tveit

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Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede. Votes: 0

Erma Bombeck

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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. Votes: 0

Abbie Hoffman

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I essentially get to represent my community on television. Votes: 0

Megan Hilty

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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy. Votes: 0

Gary Lockwood

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I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Votes: 0

Lena Dunham

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I think television is always changing. It's always shifting. Votes: 0

Vincent Kartheiser

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I think my own strengths are in television production. Votes: 0

Jim Henson

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I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. Votes: 0

Jim McKay

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The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. Votes: 0

David Nevins

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The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple. Votes: 0

Dick Clark

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I think I've got the best staff in television. Votes: 0

Phil McGraw

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I like television that grabs you by your throat. Votes: 0

James Purefoy

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When I was your age, television was called books. Votes: 0

William Goldman

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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. Votes: 0

Nicholas D. Kristof

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The only vision (many) of you have is television. Votes: 0

Leonard Ravenhill

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I don't watch television. I know better than that. Votes: 0

Tom Baker

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I feel like it's a golden age for television. Votes: 0

Judd Apatow

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Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days. Votes: 0

Joanna Kerns

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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television. Votes: 0

Steven Moffat

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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet. Votes: 0

Adam Savage

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There's room for a diversity of ages on television. Votes: 0

Bill Kurtis

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In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest. Votes: 0

Jeremy Narby

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I got into television because I hated it so, Votes: 0

Fred Rogers

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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real. Votes: 0

William Greider

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My interests are not really with television, per se. Votes: 0

Gale Harold

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I never really planned on doing a television series. Votes: 0

Judah Friedlander

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I think reality television is such a special talent. Votes: 0

Margaret Cho

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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats. Votes: 0

Oliver Gaspirtz

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Have you noticed that families on TV never watch television? Votes: 0

Henny Youngman

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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre. Votes: 0

Jeremy Bulloch

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With television, you can make anyone look larger than life. Votes: 0

Robert Dallek

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Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television. Votes: 0

Barbet Schroeder

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Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television. Votes: 0

Cass Sunstein

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Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television. Votes: 0

Maria Semple

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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television. Votes: 0

Malcolm Muggeridge

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I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Dave Chappelle

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Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in. Votes: 0

Reinhard Bonnke

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There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism. Votes: 0

Nora Ephron

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At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active. Votes: 0

Andrzej Wajda

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Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. Votes: 0

Gordon B. Hinckley

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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution. Votes: 0

Dov Davidoff

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Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television. Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television. Votes: 0

Robert Zemeckis

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I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. Votes: 0

Stephen Moyer

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It's a really incredible time to be working in television. Votes: 0

Robbie Amell

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Domald Trump has whatever it is that works on television. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I was initially a leading man, but only on television. Votes: 0

Gary Cole

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I just always had a love for television and movies. Votes: 0

Bruce Boxleitner

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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television. Votes: 0

Anna Ford

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People do not read, by and large. They watch television. Votes: 0

Frederick Busch

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Year Two is a critical year for any television show. Votes: 0

Josh Schwartz

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I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television Votes: 0

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

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I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. Votes: 0

Alexandra Paul

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I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. Votes: 0

Nigel Kneale

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I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television. Votes: 0

Jane Krakowski

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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television. Votes: 0

Tony Curtis

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I don't do a lot of guest shots on television. Votes: 0

John Larroquette

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I don't really get a chance to watch much television. Votes: 0

Will Estes

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If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV. Votes: 0

Pete Waterman

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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end. Votes: 0

Brenda Laurel

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News is the best drama on television because it's real. Votes: 0

Deborah Turness

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There are so many brilliant women on television right now. Votes: 0

Martha Plimpton

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You never know what's going to happen with television these days. Votes: 0

Patrick Warburton

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Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television. Votes: 0

Josh Radnor

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When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa. Votes: 0

Nick Hancock

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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television. Votes: 0

Vanilla Ice

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Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty, Votes: 0

Tessa Jowell

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Book - what they make a movie out of for television. Votes: 0

Leonard Louis Levinson

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I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. Votes: 0

Ansel Elgort

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I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising. Votes: 0

John Hodgman

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Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. Votes: 0

Victoria Wood

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Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. Votes: 0

Graham Norton

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All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz

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You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights Votes: 0

Bob Barker

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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite. Votes: 0

Joel Hodgson

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I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television. Votes: 0

Lesley-Anne Down

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I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news. Votes: 0

Justin Theroux

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the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television. Votes: 0

Linda Evans

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Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch. Votes: 0

Noel Coward

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I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment. Votes: 0

Jimmy Smits

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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. Votes: 0

Ruben Blades

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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television. Votes: 0

Lech Walesa

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Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there. Votes: 0

Gedde Watanabe

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It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television. Votes: 0

Matt Letscher

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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. Votes: 0

David Mamet

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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest. Votes: 0

Ramon Rodriguez

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There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television. Votes: 0

Mike White

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A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes. Votes: 0

Jim Parrack

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'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that. Votes: 0

Tracy Morgan

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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. Votes: 0

S. I. Hayakawa

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The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. Votes: 0

Jane Campion

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Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver. Votes: 0

John Logie Baird

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'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. Votes: 0

Jane Campion

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Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows! Votes: 0

Matt Nix

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Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news. Votes: 0

Stephen Colbert

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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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It's really live television, the way God meant it to be. Votes: 0

Bruce Vilanch

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I have never been in a violent movie or television show. Votes: 0

Anna Deavere Smith

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Working in television is very hard. I think people know that. Votes: 0

John Noble

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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. Votes: 0

Tyra Banks

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I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television. Votes: 0

Henry Ian Cusick

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I can't believe that person on the television is really me. Votes: 0

Keith Moon

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I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television. Votes: 0

Ryan Seacrest

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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't. Votes: 0

Anthony Bourdain

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The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television. Votes: 0

Anson Mount

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I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money. Votes: 0

Pamela Anderson

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I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything. Votes: 0

Paul McGann

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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it. Votes: 0

Yogi Berra

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There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes. Votes: 0

John Logie Baird

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I love to read the way people love to watch television. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television. Votes: 0

Rob Reiner

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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. Votes: 0

Orson Welles

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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television. Votes: 0

Dan Butler

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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television. Votes: 0

Jack Falahee

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You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. Votes: 0

Bob Barker

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I understand the process of politics and the game of television. Votes: 0

John Sununu

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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television. Votes: 0

Theodore White

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My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.' Votes: 0

Jason Katims

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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white. Votes: 0

Graham Chapman

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There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television. Votes: 0

Joe Berlinger

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We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything. Votes: 0

Dieter Hildebrandt

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Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television. Votes: 0

Mae West

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I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love. Votes: 0

Sheridan Smith

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A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television. Votes: 0

Paul Virilio

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Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to. Votes: 0

Tim Finchem

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I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool. Votes: 0

Tim Howard

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I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships. Votes: 0

NeNe Leakes

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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. Votes: 0

David Gergen

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I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality. Votes: 0

Larry Gelbart

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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. Votes: 0

Larry Gelbart

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Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show] Votes: 0

Yogi Berra

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The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television. Votes: 0

Jason Winston George

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If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0

David Strathairn

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The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything. Votes: 0

Walter Tevis

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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Votes: 0

Bruce Jackson

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I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever. Votes: 0

Adam Scott

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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level. Votes: 0

Victor Garber

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I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college. Votes: 0

Jane Lynch

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People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television. Votes: 0

Dean Winters

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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television. Votes: 0

Charley Pride

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I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in. Votes: 0

Larry Gelbart

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I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train. Votes: 0

Johnny Olson

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I would love to do a television show in New York City. Votes: 0

Ellen Barkin

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I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds." Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television. Votes: 0

Michael Schur

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George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it. Votes: 0

Larry Hagman

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I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great! Votes: 0

Camren Bicondova

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I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun. Votes: 0

Kether Donohue

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More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model. Votes: 0

Kiana Tom

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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do. Votes: 0

Jim Lehrer

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The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television. Votes: 0

Leo Fitzpatrick

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People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong. Votes: 0

Diane Sawyer

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If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one. Votes: 0

John Irving

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I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more. Votes: 0

Lynn Shelton

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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. Votes: 0

Samantha Bee

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I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing. Votes: 0

Demi Lovato

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You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore. Votes: 0

Aisha Tyler

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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world. Votes: 0

Anjelica Huston

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I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray. Votes: 0

Lana Del Rey

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In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver. Votes: 0

Damon Lindelof

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I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience. Votes: 0

Carlton Cuse

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I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines. Votes: 0

Stephen Sprouse

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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now. Votes: 0

Dick Van Dyke

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If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio. Votes: 0

Debbie Reynolds

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Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series. Votes: 0

Neve Campbell

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The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years. Votes: 0

Tim Cook

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There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? Votes: 0

Dick Cavett

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Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television. Votes: 0

Johnny Olson

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I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television Votes: 0

Natalie

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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television. Votes: 0

Micky Dolenz

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I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. Votes: 0

Edward Hirsch

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I want to do more television and I want to do more radio. Votes: 0

Anna Benson

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When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse. Votes: 0

Newton N. Minow

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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Votes: 0

Brad Bird

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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless. Votes: 0

Mireille Enos

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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving. Votes: 0

Mike O'Malley

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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television. Votes: 0

Mike Rogers

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You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed. Votes: 0

Caroline Rhea

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My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize. Votes: 0

Deborah Norville

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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. Votes: 0

Victoria Abril

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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms. Votes: 0

Kate Bush

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I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen. Votes: 0

Charlaine Harris

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There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad. Votes: 0

Greg Giraldo

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My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me. Votes: 0

Charisma Carpenter

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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. Votes: 0

Harry Dean Stanton

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In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out. Votes: 0

Jean Smart

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Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television. Votes: 0

Shania Twain

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Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? Votes: 0

Art Buchwald

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One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television. Votes: 0

Bob Keeshan

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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television. Votes: 0

Wallace Shawn

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After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to. Votes: 0

Carol Vorderman

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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings. Votes: 0

Andrew Heyward

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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. Votes: 0

Eartha Kitt

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The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television. Votes: 0

Armando Iannucci

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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25 inch color television? Votes: 0

Ron White

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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. Votes: 0

Michael K. Powell

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I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person. Votes: 0

Mark Russell

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The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money. Votes: 0

Marshall Herskovitz

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Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own. Votes: 0

Nick Cannon

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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless Votes: 0

Steve Allen

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Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar. Votes: 0

Chris Thile

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My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television. Votes: 0

Maria Semple

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I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do. Votes: 0

Rowan Atkinson

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I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program. Votes: 0

Rob Campbell

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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you. Votes: 0

Douglas Adams

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I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. Votes: 0

Allison Williams

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Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday. Votes: 0

Denis Norden

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I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week. Votes: 0

Jack Charlton

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I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies. Votes: 0

Bow Wow

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I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact. Votes: 0

Peter Higgs

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I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them. Votes: 0

Glenn Gould

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Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family. Votes: 0

Gordon Smith

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I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television." Votes: 0

Keegan-Michael Key

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We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television. Votes: 0

Josh Schwartz

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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt

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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. Votes: 0

George Foreman

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I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it. Votes: 0

Blake Shelton

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My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television Votes: 0

Jean Paul Gaultier

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I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often. Votes: 0

Alex Pareene

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No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison. Votes: 0

James Purdy

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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. Votes: 0

David Ogden Stiers

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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television. Votes: 0

Tom Petty

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There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. Votes: 0

Philip Glenister

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There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life. Votes: 0

Bryant Gumbel

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I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television. Votes: 0

Andy Cohen

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I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. Votes: 0

China Chow

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The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. Votes: 0

David Brinkley

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. Votes: 0

Samuel Goldwyn

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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. Votes: 0

Nat King Cole

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If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. Votes: 0

Clive Anderson

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I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu. Votes: 0

Bojana Novakovic

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I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all! Votes: 0

Chanel Iman

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It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few. Votes: 0

Scott M. Gimple

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My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television. Votes: 0

Bobby Flay

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I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television. Votes: 0

Frank Caliendo

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I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality. Votes: 0

Gordon Ramsay

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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. Votes: 0

Dani Shapiro

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I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one. Votes: 0

Gilda Radner

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I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it. Votes: 0

Shawn Ryan

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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television. Votes: 0

Nancy Travis

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I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid. Votes: 0

Matt Lanter

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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. Votes: 0

Ted Kotcheff

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I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years. Votes: 0

Jan Hammer

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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

Annie Dillard

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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.

Rebecca Eaton

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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

T Bone Burnett

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Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Al Michaels

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I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

Angie Stone

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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Charles de Gaulle

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When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

Jean-Luc Godard

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People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Julie Taymor

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I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies.

Lauren Shuler Donner

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I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.

Megyn Kelly

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I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

Robert Vaughn

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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Sally Ride

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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

Yvonne Strahovski

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I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

James Purefoy

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A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Louis L'Amour

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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

Paul Keating

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For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

Rob Reiner

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People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

Roy Hattersley

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I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

Tom Selleck

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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Tom Stoppard

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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Barry Lane

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We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

Bill Walton

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It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

Gary Mule Deer

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I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Hal Holbrook

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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Kurt Loder

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Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

Rita Moreno

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Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

Steve Ballmer

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Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

Tucker Carlson

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In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Charles Keating, Jr.

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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

David Brenner

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Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

David Shuster

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It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

Denis Leary

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If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Dorothy Gambrell

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Nothing good about the sun if you're trying to watch television with out curtains.

Dov Davidoff

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Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Gary Cole

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Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

J.R. Ward

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The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.

Jeff Corwin

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For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Russell Lynes

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I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

Donal Logue

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I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

George H. W. Bush

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Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

Jackie Warner

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There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

Kyle Cassie

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Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

Ludacris

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We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

Mike Pence

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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

Rod Serling

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Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

Janet Street-Porter

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I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

Laura Benanti

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What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Pauline Kael

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Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Richard M. Nixon

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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

Oprah Winfrey

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A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

Bray Wyatt

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'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

George Lucas

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I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Gloria Calderon Kellett

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Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Ian Mckellen

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Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

James Wolk

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I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one.

Katie Couric

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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Lisa Kudrow

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You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

Marc Maron

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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

Nick Willing

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Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

Paul Virilio

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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

Steve Martin

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The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

Matt Nix

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I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

Niecy Nash

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In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Ruud Gullit

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I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

Taylor Momsen

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I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Akiva Goldsman

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For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

Aldo Leopold

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I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

Amanda Schull

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I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Dennis Lehane

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How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

George Carlin

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Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

Mignon McLaughlin

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People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

Billy Bob Thornton

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It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Linda Ellerbee

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Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

Richard Lloyd

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I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

Richard Sammel

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I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

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not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

Erma Bombeck

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Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

George Will

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One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

Peter M. Lenkov

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I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Robert Urich

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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Steve Buscemi

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I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

Charles Grodin

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I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Charlize Theron

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Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Chris Hardwick

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The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

CM Punk

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The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

Geena Davis

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The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Missi Pyle

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You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

Robert Schimmel

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I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.

Sarah Paulson

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Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

Steven Moffat

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I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

Tom Verlaine

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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.

Wolfgang Puck

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What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

Adrian Younge

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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Bill Moyers

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I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

Colin Cunningham

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I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

Donna Rice Hughes

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Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

Errol Morris

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It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

Joe Queenan

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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Kevin Spacey

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I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

Natasha Lyonne

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Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Pearl Cleage

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Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

Roy Acuff

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Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Will Wright

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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

Aaron Tveit

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Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

Craig Ferguson

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You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

Fergus McCann

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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Isabelle Huppert

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Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

John Cho

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I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Nigel Kneale

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You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Berti Vogts

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I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

Conan O'Brien

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There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

Eric Idle

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Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

George R. R. Martin

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There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

Gina Torres

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Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

James Wolk

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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney

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I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

Stephanie Rothman

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It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

Aeriel Miranda

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Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Gary David

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There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

Liza Marklund

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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Melissa Leo

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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Terence McKenna

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My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

Tom Scharpling

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I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

Willie Geist

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When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

Benjamin Clementine

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The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

Bridget Regan

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I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Brion James

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All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.

Chris Hayes

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The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Christopher Eccleston

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People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

David Ogilvy

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I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

Eric Andre

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So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

George Clooney

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I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

James Lipton

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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

Joe Buck

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Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

John Tesh

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You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

Steve Rifkind

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I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.

Edwin Diamond

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Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

Gore Vidal

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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

Hans Blix

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Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Jeremy Paxman

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Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

John Brunner

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Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Katee Sackhoff

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The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

Kevin Sorbo

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Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Leonard Rossiter

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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Alan Ball

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Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Darryl F. Zanuck

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We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

Don DeLillo

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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

Gary Coleman

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Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Gerald R. Ford

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Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

Groucho Marx

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I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

Helene Hanff

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I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

Martha Plimpton

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Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

Van Jones

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I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

Anjelica Huston

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Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

Beverley Mitchell

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I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Brion James

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You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

Christine Baranski

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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Clive James

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Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

George Carlin

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I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Gore Vidal

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The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.

John Fugelsang

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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Kiefer Sutherland

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I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

Kristen Johnston

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I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

Sarah Sutton

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HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

Tom Snyder

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'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Anthony Edwards

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Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Bob Newhart

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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

Janet Jackson

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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

Marina Abramovic

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I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Nicolas Cage

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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

Pat Sajak

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One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.

Pat Sajak

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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

Paul Virilio

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I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

Red Skelton

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Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

Stephen Chbosky

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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Assata Shakur

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I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Bryan Cranston

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Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Daniel Clowes

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At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

Hiro Murai

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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

John Boyne

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It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

John Humphrys

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Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Justin Theroux

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Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Thomas Jane

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I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Tony Kornheiser

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May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Werner Herzog

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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

William Gibson

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I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Arthur Bremer

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As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Dave Navarro

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I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Elinor Lipman

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I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.

Graham Yost

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Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

Henry Blodget

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Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

Idris Elba

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I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

Kevin Whately

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Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Lauren Zalaznick

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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Pauline Kael

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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Ricky Jay

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I've been on television saying, "Â¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

Sandra Cisneros

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Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

Trisha Goddard

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In Russland wird das Volk durch die Partei verdummt, in den Vereinigten Staaten durch die Television.

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

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If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

Barbara Feldon

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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

Candace Cameron

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I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Jake M. Johnson

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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

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I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.

Rob Reiner

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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Robert MacNeil

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The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Tucker Carlson

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I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

Whit Stillman

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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Louis Kronenberger

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I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

Raymond Cruz

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I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

Ronnie Barker

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A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

Steven Dietz

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The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

Debbie Allen

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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Harvey Fierstein

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Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

James Spader

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I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

Joe Zee

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Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

John Stamos

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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

K. D. Lang

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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Kurt Vonnegut

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The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

Lauren Shuler Donner

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Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Lee Hazlewood

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If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

Mitchell Hurwitz

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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Patrick Dempsey

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Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

Penelope Keith

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It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

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It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

Tony Hale

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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Vince Gilligan

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Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

Adrianne Palicki

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Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Bruno Bettelheim

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I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

Donald Trump

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I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

Mary Tyler Moore

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There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

Shannon Miller

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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Carson Kressley

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I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

Chris Pratt

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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Dan Harmon

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The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

H. L. Mencken

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Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Jack McDevitt

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I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

John Michael Higgins

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Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

Philo Farnsworth

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I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

Stevie Wonder

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I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

Chris Hardwick

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Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Ed Rollins

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I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Edward Burns

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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

John Updike

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As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Noam Chomsky

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Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Reese Witherspoon

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I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Bill Vaughan

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I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Donna Leon

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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..

Edward R. Murrow

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But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

Evan Jones

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The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

Greg Bryk

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When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

Henry Blodget

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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Ian Hislop

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Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

Ingrid Law

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Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

Ron Perlman

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Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Benjamin Bratt

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Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

David Icke

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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Diane Abbott

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Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Dominic West

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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

Karen Black

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Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Peter Ustinov

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I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Shirley Knight

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Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Arsene Wenger

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What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

George Carlin

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Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

Helen Levitt

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There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

Ian O'Doherty

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I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

Jeff Goldblum

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Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

Jeff Greenfield

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As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Justin Kaplan

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Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

Red Skelton