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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex.  I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

Films allow you more preparation time, keeping the higher budgets in mind. Television makes you work really fast, but maintain certain standards. Then it's up to me to seek out the best of both worlds.

Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.