Johnny Olson (John Leonard Olson) Quotes
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
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Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.
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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.
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I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
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I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
