"Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug."
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"We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'"
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"I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
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"Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward."
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"When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."
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"Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at."
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"Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world."
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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous."
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"The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television."
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"Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you."
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"The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics."
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"Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room."
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"It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television."
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"Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory."
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"All television is children's television."
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"I want to bring more gymnastics on television."
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"In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself."
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