#television

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#april #drawn #each #our #scene

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#already #during #expected #high #high schools

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

#betrayed #chaos #confusion #democratic #does

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

#because #bunch #came #changed #early

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cable-television #cable-television-in-the-us #conservatism #conservatism-in-the-us #gore-vidal

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#better #easy #ever #filled #images

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#makes #media #press #stars #television

Television is democracy at its ugliest. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#democracy #television #ugliest

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. ↗

— Julia Child

#amount #baker #because #certain #cook

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity. ↗

— Connie Chung

#diversity #every #i #know #level