Television Quotes
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I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.
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Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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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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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.
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Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.
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I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.
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I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
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Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
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A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
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Film is very much about sitting around and talking about ideas, and that's the stuff that I love, but I haven't experienced that yet in the television that I've done so far. It makes me long for movies again because, creatively, I always have a much more fulfilling experience there.
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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.
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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.
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Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
