Television Quotes
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
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There are so many things out there now like these 30-minute workouts. I don't know if they work, but a lot of people have jobs and they don't have time to go to the gym. They can do those little 30-minute workouts they see on TV, or get one of those little portable gyms for their house. I think that's a good start.
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I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.
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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.
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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
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Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.
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I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
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I grew up in front of a TV.
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So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
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Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
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I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
