Television Quotes - Page 7

• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Irreverence

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

  Trevor McDonald

  Discovery, Fake, Genuine

  "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

  Sean William Scott

  Watches, Dukes, Bedroom

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

  John Larroquette

  Guests, Shots

  "10 Questions With John Larroquette". Interview with Stacy Jenel Smith, www.aarp.org. March 17, 2011.

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• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  John Sayles

  Book, Writing, People

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• I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

  Eric Idle

  Ideas, People, Gang

  "Something familiar: Monday night fall TV" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. August 31, 1999.

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• Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Character, Black, Backgrounds

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Events

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, World, Nightmare

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• I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Thinking, Print Media

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• When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Beach, Lying, Cities

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• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, My Own, Productions

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• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, Trying, Common

  "Scary Stuff, Kids! Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott Talk American Horror Story!". eclipsemagazine.com. November 1, 2011.

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• We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Years, Challenges, Important

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• For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

  James Spader

  Play, Preparation, Research

  "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

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• For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Children, Years, Feelings

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• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert MacNeil

  Night, Tunes, News

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• The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Funny Things, Watches

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

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