Television Quotes
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I don't watch much television.
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive to make.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
