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" Quotes and Sayings About television

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Been Number People Shocked
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Actually Behalf Done Events
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

Aware Because Broadcast Corny
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Imitation Sincerest Form Television
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Television Device Permits People
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“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

Television Betrayed Democratic Speech
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

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Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.
Even Less Many Much
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Identifying the different roles people play will help you enjoy life like a television.

Identifying Different role Enjoy Life
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Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Apart Because Day Football
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I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.

Acting Been Blessed Broadway
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

Come Having How Learning
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

Ability Adjustment Advantage Got
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

Assistant Could Dad Exactly
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Adolescence Any Child Desperate
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Believe Get Know On-Screen
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Could Father Hate Hated
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I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

Babylon Because Bound Corruption
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Cable Channel Channels Could
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Black Came Cinema Color
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But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

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And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Able Being Comfortable Day
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Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

15Minutes Ability About Better
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Entertainment Moral Passion Propaganda
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

Difference Movie Television Cases
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Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film Tight Little box Gone
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Absolutely Does Just Like
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
Believe Never be Limited You do
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

Anybody Anybody Else Bring Else
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

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You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

Did Done First Interview
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Golf Like People Stand
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We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Amount Internet Learning Propaganda
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I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.
Always Cheesy Guy Just
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I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Break Every EveryOpportunity Opportunity
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What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

Access Comfortable Enables Feel
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I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

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