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Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.

Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.