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I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.
- Margaret Atwood
The television series has respected one of the axioms of the novel: no event is allowed into it that does not have a precedent in human history.
- Margaret Atwood
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
- Conan O'Brien
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
- Paulo Coelho
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
- John Oliver
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
- Holly Hunter
I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.
- Christina Ricci
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
- Jennifer Lopez
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
- Jennifer Lopez
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
- Tony Campolo
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
- Conan O'Brien