Television Quotes - Page 18

• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

  Portia de Rossi

  Girl, Actresses, Supermodel

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

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• I love uplifting television.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Uplifting

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  Sally Ride

  Made, Memoir, Havens

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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• I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.

  Shawn Ryan

  Names, Want, Weak

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• I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

  Shawn Ryan

  Humble, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  Stephen Root

  New York, Goal, Actors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

  John Slattery

  Trying, Scene, Given

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

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• Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

  John Slattery

  Fall, Character, Play

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

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• "Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."

  Lara Spencer

  Monday, Husband, Night

  "ABC's Lara Spencer can't wait to host 'Antiques Roadshow' in 2004". Interview with Mary Daniels, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2003.

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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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• I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Thinking, Mundane

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

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• What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

  Blake Shelton

  Country, Needs, Magazines

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

  Brett Somers

  Personality, Knows

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Differences, People, World

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• On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Epic, Men, Air

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• It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, People, Add

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• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  Katey Sagal

  Blessing, Long, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Etch A Sketch, Gone

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• A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Buddhism, People

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• Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

  K. D. Lang

  Radio, Tvs, Vehicle

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• There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Mean, Impact, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  Geoff Stults

  Drama, Blessed, Careers

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• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  Hannah Simone

  Two, Political, Degrees

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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