Television Quotes
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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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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 distrust all television doctors.
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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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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
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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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I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
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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.
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
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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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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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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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Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
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“Modern television evangelists are mostly ignorant men with closed minds who have glimpsed the incredible reach of television – even its political influence – and spend a sizable part of their air time pleading for money.”
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.
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Getting into television was a total fluke.
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
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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.
