Television Quotes - Page 36

• It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.

  Michael Schur

  Hate, Media, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist. I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.

  Nick Offerman

  Jobs, House, Guy

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.

  Rachael Ray

  Years, Two, House

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• The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

  George Carlin

  Definitions, Garbage, High Definition

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• Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

  Daniel Horan

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

  Daniel Horan

  People, Police, World

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• George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

  David Letterman

  White, House, Watches

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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

  Phones, Ridiculous, Picks

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• The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Pieces, Unintended Consequences

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  Madchen Amick

  Creative, Mind, Firsts

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

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• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  Madchen Amick

  Thinking, Twins, Twin Peaks

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

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• If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

  Alaina Huffman

  Cities, Fans, World

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• Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

  Damon Wayans, Jr.

  Voice, People, Want

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

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• I think its really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so its good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

  Kerry Bishe

  Selfish, Thinking, Media

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• A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

  Jim Parrack

  Static

  "True stories of 'True Blood' star". Interview with Joanie Cox, articles.sun-sentinel.com. October 15, 2011.

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• When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

  Wendy Raquel Robinson

  Thinking, Black, Bars

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• Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

  Bob Gunton

  Roles, Goering, Juan

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• I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

  Samm Levine

  Running, Years, Film

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• That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Queens, Jobs, Powerful

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• I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Pain, Drama, Writing

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• The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

  James Frain

  Buccaneers, Novel, Adapted

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• The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

  Gina Bellman

  Coupling, Locals, Only Time

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• I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

  Ross Kemp

  Output, Concentration, Term

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• TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

  Ann Landers

  Impact, Hands, Stronger

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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