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Quotes About Television

My te? musimy wypeÅ'ni? nasze zadanie, co oznacza miÄ™dzy innymi pilne oglÄ…danie telewizji i Å›mier? w wieku 62 lat. A caÅ'a wolno??, o której mo?emy marzy?, to fajka, parÄ™ dowcipów i trochÄ™ nadprogramowego pieprzenia. Nie tra?my tego, co mamy, dobrze?
~ Ira Levin
thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.
~ Iris Murdoch
The television had been banished with its false sadnesses and its images of war. Perhaps he had nodded off over his book.
~ Iris Murdoch
Git tae fuck Stevie. You're pickin up some bad habits doon in London, ah'm tellin ye man. I fucking detest televised football. It's like shagging wi a durex oan. Safe fuckin sex, safe fuckin fitba, safe fuckin everything. Let's all build a nice safe wee world around ourselves, he mocked, his face contorting. Stevie had forgotten the extent of Sick Boy's natural outrage.
~ Irvine Welsh
In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.
~ Isaac Asimov
escondían las horas? Se me escurrían como sal entre los dedos, vivía en un compás de espera, pero no había nada que esperar, sólo otro día exacto al anterior, aletargada frente a la televisión con Freddy.
~ Isabel Allende
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
~ Kiri Te Kanawa
'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.
~ Richard Belzer
I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
Speaking from personal experience, I watch zero shows when they air. The only shows I watch live are awards shows or sports. Shows like 'True Detective' and 'Game Of Thrones,' I watch every episode, but I don't watch them as they air, and I think that's becoming the case for people more.
~ Andy Samberg
I have zero morals about television. I just want to be entertained.
~ Hunx
I love working in TV. And I love the adrenaline of hosting things like 'Access Hollywood' with, like, zero preparation and just going straight on.
~ Frankie Grande
I did a TV show that didn't last on ABC called 'The Zero Hour,' and my character was working at a magazine.
~ Scott Michael Foster
I was involved in an organization called the White House Project, and the woman who ran it introduced me to Bloomberg. I told them, 'You can pay me zero dollars, but I need you to give me a TV show to anchor, and I need you to hire someone to teach me where the cameras are.'
~ Stephanie Ruhle
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
~ George Saunders
I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
~ Caroll Spinney
The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
~ Tony Bennett
I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
~ George A. Romero
I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
~ Ted Naifeh
I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'
~ Phillip Phillips
The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
~ Caitlin Rose
Folks, the zombies are not on television - they are in Washington, D.C., and they meet at the Capitol Hill Club and call themselves 'Realists.'
~ Tom Tancredo
I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.
~ Charlie Brooker
'Bigg Boss' is one reality show which is a completely different format and pulls you out of your comfort zone.
~ Jasmin Bhasin