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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."
58
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
40
"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."
32
"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck."
29
"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
29
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
29
"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
29
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
28
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
28
"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."
28
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
28
"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."
27
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
27
"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."
27
"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."
27
"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."
27
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
26
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
26
"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."
26
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
25
"I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are."
25
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
25
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
25
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
25
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
25
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
24
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
24
"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."
24
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
23
"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
23
"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."
23
"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."
23
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
22
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
22
"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."
22
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
22
"If you make compelling television, they will come."
22
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
22
"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."
22
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
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