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Television Quotes



"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."


"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."


"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."



"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."


"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."


"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."


"Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there."


"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."


"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."


"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."



"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."


"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."


"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."


"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back."


"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."
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