Tvs Quotes - Page 22

• On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

  Red Barber

  Artist, Radio, Servant

  Red Barber (1968). “Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press

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• Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.

  Woody Paige

  Sports, Party, Character

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• I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.

  Marv Albert

  Sports, Games, Doors

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• I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.

  Jon Miller

  Growing Up, Games, Giving

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• You might not believe it, but there are times when I feel the TV and radio shows demand more of me than those Sunday afternoon games.

  Boomer Esiason

  Believe, Sunday, Games

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• People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

  Michael Haneke

  People, Relax, Principles

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• A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

  Tom Colicchio

  Couple, Wine, Thinking

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• I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

  Terence McKenna

  Messages, Watches, Arguing

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• If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Cutting, Technology

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

  Brian F. O'Byrne

  Guy, Speechless, Grinning

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

  Billy Connolly

  Hate, Glasses, People

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• It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

  Bob Hope

  Next Day, People, Television

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• I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don't find it beautiful I hope they're just glad that something like it is happening on TV.

  Lena Dunham

  Beautiful, Real, People

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• I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.

  Tom Ford

  Tired, Thinking, People

  "The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.

  Suzy Kassem

  Reading, Thinking, Echoes

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• I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Vegetables, Looks, Use

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• Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.

  James Maslow

  Two, Doors, Years

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• So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

  Tippi Hedren

  Tv Shows, Income, Knows

  "Better Known For 'Birds,' Tippi Hedren Prefers Cats". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 24, 2010.

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• What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.

  Chet Raymo

  Religious, Self, Political

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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  Nate Berkus

  Growing Up, Motivation, Passion

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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  Nate Berkus

  Thinking, Guy, Months

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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Reality, Thinking

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz it was cooler.

  Kerry King

  Window, Microwaves, Hotel

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• Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

  Milton Berle

  High Heels, Guy, Together

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• One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

  Wayne Knight

  Land, People, Actors

  "Wayne Knight talks about The Exes, Newman, and working in the mud for Jurassic Park". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2012.

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