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I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. -- Allison Williams
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. -- Elinor Lipman
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. -- Lauren Bacall
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. -- Michael Medved
In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. -- Andrzej Wajda
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
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight. -- Henry Fairlie
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are. -- David Bianculli
I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job. -- Allison Williams
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment. -- Nancy Meyers
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. -- Jessica Savitch
Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more. -- Chris Elliott
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? -- Adolph Zukor
I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. -- Jeffrey Hunter
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. -- Roone Arledge
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. -- Jimmy Breslin
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. -- Tom C. Clark
Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world. -- Will McDonough
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. -- Earl Blumenauer
It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is. -- Steve Burns
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. -- Paul Auster
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public. -- Clay Shirky
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction. -- Lizzy Caplan
Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots. -- Jeremy Paxman
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. -- Alexis Tsipras
The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television. -- David Bowie
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system -- Tom C. Clark
If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on television with pool cues, who would win? 1) Ricky Schroder 2) Gary Coleman 3) The television viewing public -- David Letterman
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really. -- Julian Fellowes
Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody. -- Quentin Crisp

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