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Television Quotes
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
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"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."
"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
"Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that."
"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
"I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again."
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
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