"I was initially a leading man, but only on television."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."
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"I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time."
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"Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be."
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"All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement."
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"I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center."
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"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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"I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series."
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"[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television."
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"I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing."
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"I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me."
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""It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell."
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"You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto."
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"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."
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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's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues."
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"Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively."
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"How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?"
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"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."
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