Television Quotes - Page 21

• News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

  Leslie Moonves

  Church, News, Way

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• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

  Paul McGann

  Watches

  "Paul McGann on 'Doctor Who' 50th Anniversary: 'I Know Nothing'". www.digitalspy.com. July 05, 2012.

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• I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Essex, Way, Resent

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• I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

  Paul McGann

  Simple, Thinking, Talking

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• I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

  Thomas McDonell

  Thinking, Acting, Film And Television

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

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• Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Thinking, Film And Television

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• Television wasn't prestigious.

  Dorothy Malone

  Prestigious

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• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Play, Long, Theatre

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• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Indulge In, Style, Renaissance

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• I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.

  Allison Williams

  Jobs, Home, Cereal

  "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

  Kevin Whately

  Couple, Years, Stage Actors

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• Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

  Peter Weller

  Sorry, Home, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't watch television.

  Ray Walston

  Watches

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• Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

  Jeff Zucker

  Thinking, Pressure, Different

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• The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

  Jeff Zucker

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Transition

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• You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

  John Zorn

  Kids, Waiting, Midnight

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• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  Natalie Zea

  Thinking, Drawing, Film And Television

  "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Watches, Documentaries

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• My fame is due to broadcast television.

  John Hodgman

  Fame, Dues

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

  Raymond Cruz

  Play, Live Theatre, Leisure

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

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• My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

  Sara Rue

  Years, Weight, Whole Life

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• The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

  Jeremy Paxman

  Ideas, People, Machines

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

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• I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

  Dick Cavett

  Entertainment, Associates

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• Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

  Jon Scieszka

  Reading, Book, Kids

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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