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Quotes About TV

I'm just letting you know that these stories I'm writing are not going to be about a superhero TV kind of dog. Our dog Mister Mosely. And they will all be true. Even the ones that I wish weren't.
~ Unknown
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
~ Michael Haneke
I keep my red-brown hair bristle short so it doesn't curl. Put it on top of a face full of freckles and a nose that isn't exactly small, I don't think I have career options in TV.
~ Unknown
I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.
~ Mike Myers
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
~ Mindy Kaling
That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!
~ Mindy Kaling
I was just a friendly thirty-four-year-old TV actress looking for a boyfriend who didn't have a neck tattoo.
~ Mindy Kaling
we, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women's appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games.
~ Mindy Kaling
When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.
~ Miranda July
In Britain, more people now vote on "reality TV" shows (voting, for instance, to eject a contestant from a "Big Brother" house) than vote in elections.
~ Unknown
on the TV. Kristen is saying, The fourth-quarter forecast isn't looking good. Matt is laughing attractively and saying, Now, I don't understand that kind of thing at all, but I'll tell you what I do know about: apple-bobbing.
~ Naomi Alderman
No one in France has that accent. No one has a French accent like that, except on TV, when English actors show that they are French by speaking English in a French accent that no French person ever actually uses. But we have come to accept that. We want Hercule Poirot because it sounds intelligent and travelled and cultured and everything that we're not, British or Asian.
~ Unknown
reading Amusing Ourselves to Death in 2006, in a society that worships TV and technology as ours does, is nearly an act of defiance, one of those I-didn't-realize-it-was-dark-until-someone-flipped-the-switch encounters with an illuminating intellect?
~ Neil Postman
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
~ Owen Wilson
The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Then it's off to the den, where the TV is tuned to a colorful parade, full of floats and balloons! And you watch for awhile, but soon it's all done, so you roll out the door for a stroll in the sun. And the chilly air tweeks your nose and your cheeks.
~ Unknown
All of these video games are rotting my brain. I'm gonna go watch T.V. instead
~ Unknown
I liked Lost in Space," Stefan said. "The movie or the TV series?" "The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie," he said soberly. "It was better that way.
~ Patricia Briggs
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
~ Patricia Richardson
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
~ Paul O'Grady
There was a cable-TV program that documented how Peeps are made, and it showed unlimited hordes of Peeps bouncing merrily down a conveyor belt, right toward the camera. I came.
~ Paul Rudnick
Right-brain dissociation can be seen as classical dissociation and as the defense most common to freeze types. It is the right-brain process of numbing out against intense feeling or incessant inner critic attack. Dissociation is once again a process of distraction. Survivors commonly experience it as getting lost in fantasy, fogginess, TV, tiredness or sleep.
~ Unknown
Retraumatized by her own inner voice, she then launches into her most habitual 4F behavior. She either lashes out domineeringly at the nearest person [Fight] – or she launches busily into anxious productivity [Flight] – or she flips on the TV and foggily tunes out or dozes off again [Freeze] – or she self-abandoningly redirects her attention to figuring out how to fix a friend's problem [Fawn].
~ Unknown
attachment disorder in which she bonded with TV rather than with a human being. Sadly, she is still lost in that relationship living on disability in an apartment cluttered with an enormous amount of useless hoarded material.
~ Unknown