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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.


Lydia M. Child
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It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.


Lysette Anthony
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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.


Leonard Maltin
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When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.
Jodhi May
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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
Kevin Richardson
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Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.


Jonathan Banks
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.


BD Wong
Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.
Keeley Hawes
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Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.


Richard J. Daley
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Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.
Adrianne Palicki
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Robert Brustein
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.


Randy Hultgren
Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.
James Wolk
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It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Christine Baranski
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Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
Louise Fletcher
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I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.


Debbie Harry
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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
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