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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show. -- Debra Messing
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative. -- Edward Hirsch
Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look. -- Marie Winn
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can. -- Carol Bly
Sitcoms always made the most sense to me. I grew up watching them every day with my dad. Every Monday, Tuesday night, we would be sitting in front of the television watching any kind of sitcom. I connect with that more, but I love to do whatever kind of role. -- Hayley Orrantia
I don't watch television. -- William Shatner
I don't watch television. -- William Shatner
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I don't watch that much television. -- Bob Newhart
I don't watch a lot of television. -- Edie Falco
I don't watch a lot of television. -- Edie Falco
I do not watch television, never have. -- Twyla Tharp
I have Netflix, but I don't watch television. -- Jeffrey DeMunn
I learned how to speak English watching television. -- Azita Ghanizada
I don't watch television. I know better than that. -- Tom Baker
I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy. -- Gary Lockwood
I don't have television so I don't watch TV. -- Paul Wesley
I watch a lot of television. I always have. -- Aaron Tveit
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. -- Alexandra Paul
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television. -- Robert Zemeckis
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television. -- Jack Falahee
I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows. -- Kim Cattrall
You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television? -- Jason Marsden
I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either. -- Lucy Griffiths
To me, torture would be watching sports on television. -- Quentin Tarantino
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. -- David Letterman
I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college. -- Jane Lynch
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. -- Bill Hicks
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel
Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime. -- George Will
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now. -- Dick Van Dyke
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. -- Edward Hirsch
In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television. -- Micky Dolenz
More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television. -- Evan Spiegel
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. -- Chuck Palahniuk
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. -- George Foreman
I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies. -- Lauren Shuler Donner
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. -- Joni Mitchell
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it. -- Ludacris
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens. -- Andy Rooney
You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television. -- Robert Schimmel
If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time. -- Jay Chiat
I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television. -- Frank Caliendo
Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello. -- Stephen Chbosky
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. -- Marlon Brando
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. -- John Eldredge
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off, -- John Eldredge
If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing. -- Barbara Feldon
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television. -- Chaz Bono
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. -- Donna Rice
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world. -- Donna Rice
I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows. -- Rob Reiner
...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television. -- Stephen Fry
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. -- Milton Berle
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. -- Kurt Loder
Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching. -- Neil Postman
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing." -- Jeff Zucker
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing. -- Jeff Zucker
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing -- Jeff Zucker
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. -- Johnny Cash
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious. -- Norm MacDonald
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets -- Aneurin Bevan
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space. -- Rick Alverson
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it. -- Bo Burnham
I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur -- Janet Evanovich
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you. -- John Green
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else. -- Bennett Cerf
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium. -- Kenneth Lonergan
When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television. -- Tom Felton
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. -- Bob Greene
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. -- Laura Marano
If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television? -- Joan Collins
When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves. -- Dave Haywood
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. -- Annette Funicello
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
I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home. -- Alexandra Paul
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
I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here. -- Hideki Matsui
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. -- Paul Weyrich
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Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior. -- Tim Murphy
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. -- Ben Edwards
The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television. -- Pauline Kael
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing. -- Craig Brown
I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow. -- Michael Dorn
The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs? -- John Bytheway
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die. -- Kate Bush
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time. -- Donald Miller
I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor. -- Felix Dennis
I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week. -- Matt Barr
Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you'll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching 'Masterpiece Classic.' -- Teresa Medeiros

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