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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet. — Drew Carey

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. — Roone Arledge

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. — A.A. Gill

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better. — Rebecca Eaton

Are your kids better off watching 10 hours of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel every week? — Ian Lamont

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue. — Robert J. Sawyer

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing. — Mackenzie Davis

Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television. — Suzanne Collins

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore. — Will McDonough

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. — Sydney Schanberg

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it. — Kevin Sorbo

Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. — Alfred Hitchcock

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. — Leonard Maltin

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. — David Brinkley

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television. — Taraji P. Henson

I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television — Natalie

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. — Allison Williams

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican. — Joe Queenan

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill. — George Mikes

News isn't even the truth on television. — Val Kilmer

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it. — Lauren Graham

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. — Gore Vidal

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible. — Antony Beevor

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants. — Florence Henderson

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater. — BD Wong

The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything. — Walter Tevis

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. — Trevor McDonald

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film. — Lennie James

The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence. — James Arness

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. — Galina Vishnevskaya

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie ... that existed on a parallel plane, you know? — Jennifer Garner

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong. — Alan Hansen

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties. — A.A. Gill

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world. — Robert MacNeil

What is it about men and yelling at a game on television? Don't they realize they can't change the outcome, no matter how loudly they yell? — Melissa Collins

Was it? I said cautiously, it having been my occasional habit to watch television in the drawing room without the encumbrance of trousers. — Paul Murray

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. — Norman Mailer

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private. — Amanda Burton

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. — Ben Mendelsohn

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. — Peter Dinklage

I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television. — Chris Hayes

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity. — Ruby Gettinger

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world. — Ellen Pompeo

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. — Jimmy Breslin

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. — Zooey Deschanel

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. — Robert MacNeil

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. — Ridley Scott

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. — Harold Brodkey

If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love. — Sheridan Smith

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long. — Patrik Sinkewitz

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot. — K.d. Lang

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard. — Win Butler

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie. — Mitchell Hurwitz

I understand the process of politics and the game of television. — John Sununu

The cultivation theory has been widely used in the study of violence in television. — Anonymous

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. — Ted Turner

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa. — Nick Hancock

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. — Marc Maron

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time. — Joel Siegel

That is the studliest thing I have ever seen. — Darren Star

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. — Volker Bertelmann

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots? — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in. — Grace Gealey

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know? — Tony Garnett

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. — Lisa Nicole Carson

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. — Sophia Loren

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized. — Nic Pizzolatto

Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous. — Wolfgang Puck

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news. — Justin Theroux

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours. — Pauline Gedge

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not. — Henry Blodget

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman. — Jack Whitehall

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. — Paul Erdos

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television. — Douglas Hurd

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone. — Mackenzie Astin

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. — Bill Moyers

Media: the tongue of a nation! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television. — Bill Buford

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.' — David Letterman

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way. — Camryn Manheim

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down. — Dave Holmes

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions. — David Letterman

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. — Katie Price

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. — Clive James

The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with. — Sara Ramirez

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write. — Roky Erickson

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. — Amy Bloom

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics. — Paul Winchell

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen. — Charlaine Harris

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did. — Ted Turner

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens. — Marvin Minsky

Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start. — Carol M. Ford

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. — Ken Thompson