Stephen J. Cannell (Stephen Joseph Cannell) Quotes
Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.
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I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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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 don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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But reality television is here to stay.
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Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.
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I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
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Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.
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No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.
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Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.
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When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
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Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.
