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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.

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

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be.  If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be.  I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there.  It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.