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Television Quotes


"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."


"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."


"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."


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


"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."


"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."



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


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


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


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


"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."


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


"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."


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