Television Quotes
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If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.
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We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings.
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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.
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It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
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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.
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People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
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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.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.
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I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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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.
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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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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.
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Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
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When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
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Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
