Television Quotes
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
Walter Cronkite
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
Alicia Keys
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
Elijah Wood
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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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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
J. J. Abrams
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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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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
K. D. Lang
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I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
Lisa Edelstein
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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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There was only so much television you could do.
Jackie Cooper
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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
Derek Luke
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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
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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 is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
Josephine Hart
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I grew up in front of a TV.
Jemaine Clement
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
Vince Gilligan
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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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If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.
Barbara Feldon
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.
Jean Chretien
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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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Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.
Scott Bakula