Television Quotes
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I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.
Alexandra Pelosi
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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.
Eddie McGuire
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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
Anna Ford
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
Lauren Graham
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
Edwin Newman
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The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.
Michael Merzenich
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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
Will McDonough
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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
Reed Hundt
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J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
Michael O'Brien
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
George W. S. Trow
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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.
Emily Raboteau
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
Edwin Newman
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Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.
George Gerbner
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It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.
Conan O'Brien
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Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
Andy Rooney
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Television played its part, too. It exalted the picture and depreciated the word. The "talking head" was considered dull television and to be avoided whenever possible in favor of something, anything, moving, though a head that talks well is a pearl beyond price.
Edwin Newman
