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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
Alfred Hitchcock
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"Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done."
Ernie Kovacs
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"The film industry is about saying ‘no' to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no' for an answer."
James Cameron
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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."
Lily Tomlin
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
Ansel Adams
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"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath."
Dave Barry
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"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV."
Erma Bombeck
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"So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free."
Jason Love
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"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control."
Donna Gephart
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"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
David Foster Wallace
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"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
Bille August
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"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
George Gobal
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"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
T. S. Eliot
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"Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens."
Fran Lebowitz
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
Fred Allen
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"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
Margaret Mead
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"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
Alfred Hitchcock
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"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
Salvador Dali
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
Bern Williams
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"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
Nicholas Johnson
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"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
Gore Vidal
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
Plato
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"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention."
Kevin Kelly
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Buck
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
Oprah Winfrey
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Eric Hoffer
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"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."
Geri Weitzman
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