Television Quotes
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
Jaclyn Smith
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Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.
J. H. Wyman
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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
Oprah Winfrey
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie Hoffman
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New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.
Kristine Carlin Bay
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I didn't really like being on television at all.
Natalia Kills
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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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I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.
Norm MacDonald
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There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
Evan Osnos
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
Alan Hansen
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
Josephine Hart
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Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium.
William S. Paley
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When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
Amy Poehler
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
Dana Carvey
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Lauren Graham
