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Television Quotes
"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
4
"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
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"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
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"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."
4
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
4
"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."
4
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
3
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
3
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
3
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
3
"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
3
"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."
3
"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?"
3
"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."
3
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
3
"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"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."
3
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
3
"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."
2
"I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again."
2
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
2
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
2
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
2
"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
2
"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
2
"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
2
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
2
"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."
2
"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
2
"CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television."
2
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
2
"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
2
"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
2
"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
2
"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
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"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."
2
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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