Television Quotes

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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's… — David Attenborough
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a… — David Attenborough
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us.… — Margaret Atwood
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher,… — Peter Ackroyd
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman… — Michele Bachmann
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes… — Eric Bana
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. — Tyra Banks
I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television. — Dave Barry
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt… — Dave Barry
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! — Dirk Benedict
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. — Diane Abbott

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