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There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Television speeded everything up.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.