Television Quotes - Page 23

• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Sex, Giving Up

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• Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

  Susan Sontag

  Funny, Secret, Given

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.178, Macmillan

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• I essentially get to represent my community on television.

  Megan Hilty

  Community

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  John Sayles

  Book, Writing, People

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• I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

  Eric Idle

  Ideas, People, Gang

  "Something familiar: Monday night fall TV" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. August 31, 1999.

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, World, Nightmare

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• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, My Own, Productions

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• For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Children, Years, Feelings

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• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert MacNeil

  Night, Tunes, News

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• The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Funny Things, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Political, Impossible

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• I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Thinking, Diversity, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

  Chuck D

  Years, Two, Differences

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 2000.

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• Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Eye, Television Watching

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Fcc

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Dvds, House, Watches

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  Patrick Duffy

  Lucky, Actors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

  Andrew Shue

  Running, Years, Choices

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• I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

  Will Estes

  Watches, Chance, Everybody Loves Raymond

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• What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

  John Barrowman

  Couple, Fall, Different

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I think looks do matter on television.

  Joy Behar

  Thinking, Looks, Matter

  "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.

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