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" Quotes and Sayings About television

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Screens Face Half Rooms
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Television has played an important role in normalizing the experiences of gay men and lesbians in America.

Experience Gay Lesbian Men
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While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment

Hardship Men People Telivision
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Come Half World Good
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If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Miserable Shit Deserve Boring
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.

About Crashed Franklin Roosevelt
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Eating Hate Much Peanuts
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes Television Storyline Told
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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic
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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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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Colonial Everything Foreign Imported
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Diverse Fortune Good Good Fortune
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Comedians God Living Plenty
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

About Actor Any Being
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

Am I Am Interested Just
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Entertainment Joke Listen Lonesome
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

Everyone Home Make Mistake
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Create Entertainment Eyes Interest
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Broke Loose Me Put
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Free Liv Live Theater Me
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I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Affair Arts Beginning Box
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If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
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We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
Allow Cannot Leaders Situations
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Another Demanded Everyone Instead
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Books Don Everything Five
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When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Ask Give Help Help People
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Dignity Good Meet Never
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Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

Heart I See Life More
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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Avoid Places Politics Ropes
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I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

High High School I Love Lot
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Shy Spend Time Reading
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Actually Books Closer Human
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