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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Television can be a very fickle place

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

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

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

Television is a passivity.

Television is a vast wasteland.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.

Television... is not a substitute for print.