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Television Quotes by Frederic Raphael
- The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
- One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of…
- Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup…
- The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that…
- The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
More Television Quotes
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- 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.… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — 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… — Michele Bachmann