Tvs Quotes - Page 18

• People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

  Kurt Braunohler

  People, Faces, Said

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• Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

  Art Linkletter

  Beautiful, Squares, Important

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• I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

  Doug Liman

  Political, Film, Mediums

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• I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Couple, Tv Shows, Done

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• After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

  Justin Chadwick

  Opportunity, College, Acting

  "INTERVIEW | “The First Grader” Director Aims to Uplift and Make You Think". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 10, 2011.

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• My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

  Dexter Fletcher

  Teacher, Guy, Parent

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

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• I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US.

  Julian Ovenden

  Tv Shows, Shows, Downloads

  "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Konnor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  Damian Loeb

  Black And White, Color, People

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• Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

  Art Spiegelman

  Yelling

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• That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Memories, Home, Bliss

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

  Mary Harron

  Years, Television, Wonder

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Directors

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Critics say it's illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It's also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn't born in this country.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Country, Hair

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• I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, People, Nervous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 16, 2012

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• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  Eric Mazur

  Watches, Marathon, Process

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• Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

  Garrison Keillor

  Talking, People, Parent

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.9, Penguin

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• Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Tragedy, Youth

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• When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.

  Tyne Daly

  Boys, Years, Icons

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• When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

  Bela Karolyi

  Book, Tv Shows, Magazines

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

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• Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Doe, Cinema

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'

  Jay Kay

  People, Watches, News

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• There's a reason why very few people listen to Catholic radio, very few people watch Catholic TV. It's because there's no quality to it and so it's like, if you put quality there, if you're real broadcasters, you make it entertaining.

  Lino Rulli

  Real, People, Catholic

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

  Conor McPherson

  Beautiful, Country, House

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.

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