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television Quotes and Quotations
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In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite. Alvin Adams | top
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' Joe Biden | top
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Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? Elayne Boosler | top
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Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems. Marc Cherry | top
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. George Clooney | top
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television. Gary Cole | top
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It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. Richard Donner | top
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I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. Roger Ebert | top
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Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. Robert Fraser | top
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I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again. Charlotte Gainsbourg | top
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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. David R. Gergen | top
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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? Trisha Goddard | top
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me. Wavy Gravy | top
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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. Shirley Knight | top
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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. Norman Mailer | top
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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. Isaac Mizrahi | top
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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. Rick Moranis | top
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We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. Bill Moyers | top
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The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. Roger Mudd | top
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Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore. Maury Povich | top
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I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. Lynn Redgrave | top
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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. Nathalie Sarraute | top
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In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again. Joe Simon | top
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If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV. Pete Waterman | top
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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. Terry Wogan | top