Television Quotes
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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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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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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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If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
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Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.
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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
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Please, do not adjust your television set.
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Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.
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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.
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It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
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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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As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.
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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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I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
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I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
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Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.
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The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.