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We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
Author:
Ernie Wise
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If you make compelling television, they will come.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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I think television defeats ventriloquism.
Author:
Paul Winchell
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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
Author:
Theodore White
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Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.
Author:
Gedde Watanabe
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You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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I don't watch television.
Author:
Ray Walston
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I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
Author:
Robert Urich
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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.
Author:
Shania Twain
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I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
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Donald Trump
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I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.
Author:
Sarah Sutton
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I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
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Kiefer Sutherland
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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
Author:
David Stiers
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I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.
Author:
Stephen Sprouse
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When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
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Boris Spassky
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I liked television, and television liked me.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.
Author:
David Selby
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
Author:
C. Scott
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Year Two is a critical year for any television show.
Author:
Josh Schwartz
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Television is intensely personal.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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Isn't television glamourous?
Author:
Adam Savage
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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.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
Author:
Pat Sajak
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I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
Author:
Mark Russell
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
Author:
Portia Rossi
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CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
Author:
Mike Rogers
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
Author:
Alexandra Paul
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I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
Author:
Johnny Olson
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Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.
Author:
Michael O'Donoghue
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Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
Author:
Paul Muldoon
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I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
Author:
Rick Moranis
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I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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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.
Author:
Michael Medved
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I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
Author:
Will McDonough
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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.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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Television wasn't prestigious.
Author:
Dorothy Malone
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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
Author:
Gavin MacLeod
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Television is simply automated daydreaming.
Author:
Lee Loevinger
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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
Author:
Kurt Loder
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Television's not going read stories to you.
Author:
Kurt Loder
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
Author:
Gary Lockwood
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Book - what they make a movie out of for television.
Author:
Leonard Levinson
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Author:
Lisa Kudrow
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I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
Author:
Shirley Knight
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I'd never seen any television before I started.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Author:
Calvin Klein
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Author:
Larry King
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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.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
Author:
Jahangir Khan
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I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.
Author:
Moira Kelly
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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.
Author:
Peter Jennings
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Author:
Clive James
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If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
Author:
Michael Ironside
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I want to make smart television.
Author:
Michael Ironside
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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.
Author:
Lena Horne
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Author:
Abbie Hoffman
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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.
Author:
Andrew Heyward
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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.
Author:
Jim Henson
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Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.
Author:
Lee Hazlewood
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Television speeded everything up.
Author:
Ruth Handler
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Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.
Author:
Anthony Hall
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The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
Author:
Matt Groening
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
Author:
Jack Gould
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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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?
Author:
Trisha Goddard
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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.
Author:
Trisha Goddard
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I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.
Author:
Mark Goddard
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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
Author:
David Gergen
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Author:
Uri Geller
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Author:
Larry Gelbart
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I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.
Author:
Greg Garrison
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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.
Author:
Michael Gambon
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I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
Author:
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
Author:
Fred Friendly
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I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Author:
Dawn French
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If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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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.
Author:
Sherilyn Fenn
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I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.
Author:
Lesley-Anne Down
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Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?
Author:
Phil Donahue
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Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.
Author:
Cyril Cusack
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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
Author:
Tony Curtis
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Television is a young person's medium.
Author:
Bernard Cornwell
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There was only so much television you could do.
Author:
Jackie Cooper
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Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
Author:
David Caruso
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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
Author:
Steve Buscemi
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Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Author:
Art Buchwald
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Author:
Les Brown
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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.
Author:
Julian Bond
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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
Author:
Ruben Blades
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Author:
Milton Berle
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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.
Author:
Dave Barry
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
Author:
Dave Barry
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It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Author:
Christine Baranski
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Author:
Pamela Anderson
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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.
Author:
June Allyson
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In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.
Author:
Marcus Allen
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Author:
Fred Allen
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Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
Author:
Robert Adams
