Television Quotes
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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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.
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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.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
