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Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television. -- Johnny Olson
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. -- Rick Moranis
When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' -- David Gerrold
I got an early education from television. -- Debra Wilson
We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television. -- Ernie Wise
Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. -- Ben Mendelsohn
Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas. -- Wolf Blitzer
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television. -- Michael Apted
I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. -- Henry Rollins
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. -- Arto Lindsay
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show. -- John Sebastian
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that. -- Sherilyn Fenn
I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that. -- Amanda Crew
My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends. -- Anna Torv
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television. -- Rachel Griffiths
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television. -- Mackenzie Astin
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer. -- Judy Collins
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute. -- Mary Gordon
I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television. -- Lowell Bergman
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years. -- Joel Osteen
I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows. -- Whit Stillman
There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression. -- Catherine Taylor
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea. -- Alex Gansa
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Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model -- Adam Schiff

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