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

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    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 It has been replaced by celebrity news.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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

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

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

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    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.

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    Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.

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    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.

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    So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

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

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

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

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

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

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    Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

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    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.

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    Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

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    Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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?

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    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.

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

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

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

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    Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

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    television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

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    Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

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    Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

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    Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

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    Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

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    Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

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    Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

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    Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

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

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    Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

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    Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

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

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

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