Television Quotes - Page 34

• Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Animal, Mourning

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• 10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

  Alan Coren

  War, Bed, Three

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• If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

  Declan Lynch

  Talking, Hours, Ifs

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• In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Years, President, Hollywood

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• Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Guy, Trying

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• But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

  Aaron Spelling

  Done, World, Rating

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• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  Aaron Spelling

  Missing, Division, Stories

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• I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.

  Alyssa Milano

  Friday, Writing, Character

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• There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Numbers, People, Musical

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

  Bo Derek

  Thinking, Islands, Different

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

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• I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Rocks, Usa

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• The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

  David Cronenberg

  Unique, Hbo, Film

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• It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

  Derek Jacobi

  England, Bigs, Wells

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• I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Film, Stage

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

  Jim Henson

  Afternoon, Littles, Housewife

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• Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, Style, Together

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• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  Parker Stevenson

  Air, Done, Hours

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• It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

  Eric Sevareid

  Army, Erosion, Issues

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• If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Economy, Placement

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• I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

  Bob Schieffer

  Growing Up, Literature, Newspaper Reporters

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• I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Religious, Kindness, Compassion

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• And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

  Katie Couric

  Literature, Able, Turns

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• But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

  Katie Couric

  Running, Morning, School

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• The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Media, Silence, News

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• They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Kids, Games

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