Television Quotes
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I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
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I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.
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I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
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I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.
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I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.
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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 often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
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But reality television is here to stay.
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Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.
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As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.
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Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.
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Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.
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Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
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I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.
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Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.
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When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.
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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
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I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
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Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?
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I had this feeling everybody thought I was dead. I didn't quit. I did some films and theater in London. I went to New York. But I had been on television so much, people thought [if I wasn't on television] I wasn't around.
