Television Quotes
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Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
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I distrust all television doctors.
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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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I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
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The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.
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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 has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
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'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
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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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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
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I didn’t know why I was thinking about all these things—except that’s what I always did. I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. I could control whatever I wanted to watch. I could switch the channels anytime I wanted.
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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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It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.
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TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
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I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.
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My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.
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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
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Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
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I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
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Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
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Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.
