"Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity."
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"I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do."
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"For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me."
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"There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely."
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"If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile."
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"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
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"I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes."
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"I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television."
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"I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world."
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"Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do."
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"Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television."
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"Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general."
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"The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?"
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"There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?"
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"I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script."
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"I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!"
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"I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for."
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"Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it."
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"MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan."
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"Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you."
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