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Television Quotes
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
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"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
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"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
17
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
14
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
14
"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."
13
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
13
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
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"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
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"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."
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"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."
13
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
12
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
12
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
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"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
11
"When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally."
11
"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."
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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
10
"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."
10
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
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"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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"If you make compelling television, they will come."
10
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
10
"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."
10
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
9
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
9
"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."
9
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
9
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
9
"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
9
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
9
"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."
9
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
9
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
9
"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."
9
"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
9
"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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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."
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