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Television Quotes
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there."
"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television."
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
"CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television."
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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