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Television Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
- Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem.…
- The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit
- I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
- The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
- Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are…
More Television Quotes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — 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.… — 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
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — 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… — Eric Bana