Television Quotes - Page 8

• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

  Troian Bellisario

  Mom, Dad, Successful

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Radio

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• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Alexis Bledel

  Years, Sides, Tvs

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• When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

  Antony Beevor

  Writing, Wine, Night

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• Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

  Bob Barker

  Country, Decision, Finals

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

  Brian Baumgartner

  Directors, Mediums

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2010.

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• But reality television is here to stay.

  Cilla Black

  Reality, Reality Television

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• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  Ed Balls

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

  Guy Burgess

  Media, Stories, Able

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• I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Hbo, Cnn, Magazines

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• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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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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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Guy, Surf

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• I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Running, Watching Tv

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• 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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• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Irreverence

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

  Sean William Scott

  Watches, Dukes, Bedroom

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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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• When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Beach, Lying, Cities

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• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, My Own, Productions

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