Television Quotes
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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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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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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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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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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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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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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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 like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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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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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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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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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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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
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I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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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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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 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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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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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.
