Television Quotes
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I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism that is unique to him. This book gives the reader an insight into the sometimes absurd world of television sports. There is a 31st undeniable truth: Al Bernstein is a truly funny man.
Barry Tompkins
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Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.
Mena Suvari -
TV is and will remain the leading medium - whether it's public broadcasting, commercially funded Free-TV, or whether it is our new growth engine, Pay-TV; whether it is distributed via broadcasting or on demand: The future of TV is - TV!
Gerhard Zeiler -
I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.
Sandra Cisneros -
Every city you go to has television and radio talk shows that are dying to give young comics a showcase. They all want to be able to say that so-and-so started here, got his first break on this show.
Norm Crosby -
When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
Ann Hui -
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin
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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
George Foreman -
I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well at television is because I grew up watching the great sitcom actors Jackie Gleason, I love Rob Reiner, also John Ritter.
Steve Howey -
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
Ravi Zacharias -
When I was your age, television was called books.
William Goldman -
If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.
Gerhard Zeiler -
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Steve Jobs
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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.
Elinor Guggenheimer -
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
Red Skelton -
I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television. Thank you so much, you have no idea what this means to me.
Kelly Clarkson -
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
Terence McKenna -
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
Montel Williams -
Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
Alec Douglas-Home
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No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
Scott Pelley -
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.
Terence McKenna -
Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
Michael Gambon -
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Terry Wogan