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Television Quotes
"If you make compelling television, they will come."
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"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television."
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"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
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"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."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"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."
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"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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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."
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"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
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"I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again."
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"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there."
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"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
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"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
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"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
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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 don't think I miss anything by not watching television."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"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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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
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"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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