Nicholas Johnson Quotes
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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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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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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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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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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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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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.
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I started my career with television, and whatever work I did was keeping the content as my topmost priority. Same goes with the movies: I never grabbed any work!
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I didn't really like being on television at all.
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Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
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The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words.
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
