#levis

I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best. ↗

— Greg Garrison

#did #honest #i #live #real

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#characters #extensions #family #films #friends

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#accidental #both #bubble #conversational #created

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#because #die #i #known #largest

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#heads #modern #revolutionary #station #television

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#appliance #cleaner #days #electrical #entertainment

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#ambition #doing #eileen #feldman #i

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life. ↗

— Kate Jackson

#did #get #get a life #gone #got

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#everything #foreign #imported #legacy #nation

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. ↗

— Justin Kaplan

#communal #despite #enormous #few #lines