Television Quotes - Page 8

• I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Political, Impossible

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• I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

  Mark Russell

  Thinking, Performers, Persons

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• People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

  Mark Russell

  People, Faces, Good Mood

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• We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Faces

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

  Chuck D

  Years, Two, Differences

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 2000.

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Eye, Television Watching

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Fcc

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

  Patrick Warburton

  Homeless, Never Say Never, Aerosmith

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Arguing, Social

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Dvds, House, Watches

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  Patrick Duffy

  Lucky, Actors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television is a service, but it's also a business.

  Megyn Kelly

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• I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

  Andrew Shue

  Running, Years, Choices

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• I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

  Will Estes

  Watches, Chance, Everybody Loves Raymond

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• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  Victoria Pratt

  Stars, People, Teeth

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• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  Candice Accola

  Relationship, Sunshine, Work Out

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• I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about "the character," and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

  John Barrowman

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

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• What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

  John Barrowman

  Couple, Fall, Different

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• I think looks do matter on television.

  Joy Behar

  Thinking, Looks, Matter

  "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.

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• Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.

  Joy Behar

  Fall, Play, Two

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• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Careers, Live Theatre

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• My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

  Troian Bellisario

  Mom, Dad, Successful

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Radio

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