"I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really."
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"TV has created a kind of false collectivity."
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"I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio."
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"I got an early education from television."
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"I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so."
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"I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses."
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"I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love."
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"I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening."
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"I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money."
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"To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it."
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"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."
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"Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy."
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"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
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"Democracy means free television, not good television, but free."
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"The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is."
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"I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me."
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"Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder."
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"Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal."
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"I love to read the way people love to watch television."
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"I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down."
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