Television Quotes
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
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I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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It's funny that and the same statement Barack Obama made when he's talking about Republicans and the Iranians, he's talking to Republicans through the television. He said, if any of you are watching this, you need to think about who you're hurting.
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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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It's so important... to have a variety of representation on television.
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Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
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It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
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When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.
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I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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Can't sleep unless the TV is on.
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
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A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
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I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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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.
