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It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

I got an early education from television.

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.