Alex Trebek Quotes

I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

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• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Books
  • Read
  • Just

• You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

  

  T-Pain
  • Hate
  • TV
  • Britney Spears

• I love TV.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Love
  • I Love
  • TV

• In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Read
  • Fact
  • Longer

• 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Over

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
  • I Can
  • Director
  • Watch

• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Watch

• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Like
  • Watch
  • Essential

• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Illiterate

• I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Film
  • TV
  • Phases

• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Things
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Read

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beautiful
  • Say
  • Watch

• There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

  

  Steve Mann
  • Life
  • Live
  • Watch

• I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • People
  • Played
  • Repressed

• We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day less united, and every day falling deeper into a new level of cultural despair.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Despair
  • Falling
  • Between

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Garden
  • Herbs

• I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Read
  • Watch
  • TV