Television Quotes
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As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
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By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
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You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.
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You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.
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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.
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The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.
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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
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It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
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Getting into television was a total fluke.
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Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.
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What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
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Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.
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Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on their own. Instead, they are letting other children and the media, principally television and the movies, do the job.
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
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I'm a TV man, not a money man.
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My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.
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Please, do not adjust your television set.
