Television Quotes - Page 28

• It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Impossible, Telling The Truth

  1976 Christ and theMedia,'Questions following the 3rd lecture'.

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• Jerry Lewis played on the very first season of Mad About You, and he played basically himself, but he was called some other name. He said he's never done it; he'd never done a half-hour of [sitcom] television. This was 1992 or '93. And I said, "Well how is that?" And he goes, "Nobody ever asked me." It's like the pretty girl at the dance; everybody's too afraid to ask.

  Paul Reiser

  Girl, Names, Mad

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.

  Randall Jarrell

  Fall, Writing, Heart

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Song, Men, Years

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• You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

  John Bolton

  Writing, Appreciate, Limits

  "John Bolton, Criticizer-In-Chief". The Daily Caller Interview, dailycaller.com. August 30, 2010.

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• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Grappling, Stills

  "J.J. Abrams Talks STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, 3D, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5, the FRINGE Finale, Future Projects, Maintaining Secrecy and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 6, 2013.

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• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Jobs, Dad, Mean

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

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• I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

  Peter Lynch

  Learning, Keys, History

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• I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

  Pamela Anderson

  Reality, Pay, Reality Television

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• The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.

  Federico Fellini

  Children, Eye, Law

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

  Chinua Achebe

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.83, Anchor

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• I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Taken, Ethos

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• I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Style

  "British Sensation Lawson Says Cooking Should Be About Fun, Family". Oakland Tribune, June 04, 2003.

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• I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

  Will Self

  Art, Apology, Cake

  2001 Feeding Frenzy.

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• I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

  Harry E. Sloan

  America, Germany, Remember

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

  Will Smith

  Morning, Creating, Hustle

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

  David Jason

  Media, Age, Want

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Writing, Watches

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Media, Apples, Film

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Character, Writing, Interesting

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.

  Julie Andrews

  Two, Sound, Watches

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Writing, Skills

  "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

  Jason Marsden

  Age, Want

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