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There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
We could fill up a whole hour's television show talking about coach's recruiting stories, I love them, they're the best.
Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.
In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.
I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.