Television Quotes
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop -
I'm a television junkie.
Candice Accola
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd -
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott -
Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
Victor Webster -
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
Nancy Travis -
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond -
I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
Wallace Shawn
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
Paloma Faith -
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton -
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James -
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Victoria Wood -
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Orson Welles -
I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.
Ed Gordon
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
Madchen Amick -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco -
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
Larry Wilmore -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. Hayakawa -
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Aaron Sorkin
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
George Clooney -
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
Kate Jackson -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen -
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Uri Geller