Television Quotes (page 43)

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• thinking
• defeated
• thinks

I think television defeats ventriloquism. Paul Winchell

• avoiding
• government
• preference

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. Jean-Marie Le Pen

• good
• great
• acceptance

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives. Tony Wilson

• greatness
• moments
• great

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. Rainn Wilson

• unique
• good
• movie

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. David Cronenberg

• father
• waiting
• invented

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries

• play
• usefulness
• yearly

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to. Carol Vorderman

• concert
• busy
• dream

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue. Faith Hill

• bored
• work
• understanding

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all. Guy Pearce

• education
• early
• educator

I got an early education from television. Debra Wilson

• people
• machines
• taxes

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? Jeremy Paxman

• hateful
• i hate
• hating

I have no television - I hate it. Patricia Highsmith

• eyes
• black
• watch

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Bill Hicks

• god
• ways
• really

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be. Bruce Vilanch

• kindness
• dealing
• kind

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings. Andrew Heyward