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We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers. -- Chelsea Clinton
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. -- Les Brown
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me. -- BD Wong
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. -- Alex Tabarrok
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. -- Orson Welles
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? -- Warren Ellis
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. -- Peter Benchley
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing. -- Kim Raver
I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows. -- Scott Bakula
I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals. -- Kevin Chapman
We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world. -- Joanna Lumley
I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me. -- Jimmy Smits
I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage. -- Ray William Johnson
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. -- Tony Campolo
You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way. -- Jon Cryer
I want to know why we exist and what I can do while I'm existing. Basically. it's learning how to exist, wholely, consciously. Growing up on fast food and television shows, you can easily forget to exist. You can even be treated as if you don't. -- Jason Mraz
When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques. -- Judith Miller
When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long. -- Chad Hurley
Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing. -- Michael Hogan
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. -- Alex Tabarrok
It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' -- Curtis Stone
Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. -- Chris Lowe
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature. -- Bil Keane
Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It's a disturbing trend, and I feel really sad when I see small kids dancing to such numbers in television shows. In my career so far, I have refused any song whose lyrics I haven't been comfortable with. -- Shreya Ghoshal
It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer. -- Justin Kirk
I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is. -- Lisa Edelstein
Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows! -- Matt Nix
I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever. -- Adam Scott
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television. -- Micky Dolenz
I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows. -- Kim Cattrall
In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. -- Woody Allen
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. -- Brion James
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes. -- Steve Martin
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows. -- Michael Lynton
It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few. -- Scott M. Gimple
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air. -- George Carlin
At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will. -- Andy Richter
I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows. -- Rob Reiner
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used. -- Jessica Valenti
I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows. -- Whit Stillman
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since. -- Robert Englund
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living. -- Bill Cosby
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them. -- Graham Yost
These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies. -- Robert Wagner
Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all. -- Chuck Barris
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings. -- Will McDonough
Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time. -- Jill Lepore
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that. -- Roseanne Barr
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children? -- Thomas Sowell
I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do. -- Bridget Regan
I watch way too much television and like a lot of shows, so I'm always excited to meet those people and hope they're not douchey. -- Kevin Rahm
I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television. -- Thu Tran
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. -- Jason Ritter
Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough. -- Scott Aukerman
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. -- George Clooney
On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about. -- Ellen Goodman
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays. -- Charlie Brooker
I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things! -- Michael B. Jordan
I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television. -- Kelly Wearstler
I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that. -- Seth Green
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago. -- Jonathan Dee
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love. -- Nate Berkus
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development. -- Neil Postman
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method. -- Jerrold Nadler
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts. -- Larry Cohen
Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor. -- Kathryn Hahn
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television. -- Jamie Farr
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. -- Walter Slezak
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work. -- Zachary Knighton
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. -- Chris Hedges
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now. -- Dylan McDermott
I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else. -- Donald Trump
I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show. -- John Hawkes
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show? -- Sonny Rollins
I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows. -- Trishelle Cannatella
I don't have time, I watch movies, or shows people are talking about. Television is the medium I use the least; I'd rather use my computer, iPhone or iPad. -- Franca Sozzani
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show. -- Casey Kasem
I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on. -- Bear McCreary
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. -- Dave Attell
I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met. -- Steven Spielberg
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. -- Geena Davis
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises. -- John Dobbin
I want be a 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. -- Dave Chappelle
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it. -- Jill Scott
I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take. -- Lizzy Caplan
I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take. -- Lizzy Caplan
Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it. -- Jill Scott
Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present. -- Jon Huertas
Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them. -- Victor Garber
I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves. -- James Wolk
I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie. -- Misha Collins
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances. -- Fran Lebowitz
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know. -- Fatima Siad
Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health. -- Rodney A. Smolla

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