“FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.” YearsLastsFacesNationsTelevisionYears AgoProgramTwentiesTablesEightFiftyTwenty One Author:Rodney Erickson
“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.” PeopleHeartTwoMomentsLastsGivenSimpleHalfStruggleCenturyTelevisionTvsBattleConversationSittingAdvantageSurfacePsychologicalMemorableInterviewsStoppingFormatPower StruggleMemorable Moments Author:David Frost
“It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.” MenWorldLastsEnergyLinesWhiteRaceFeetTelevisionGeniusMoonRadioDecadesExtrasTerritoryContinentsWhite ManTelephonesHighwaysMiraculousRocketsElectricalRailroadsElectronicsWhite RacePower LinesElectrical Power Author:Ben Klassen
“The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.” HomeLastsWatchesTelevision Author:Leo Fitzpatrick
“I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.” LastsHoursDyingTelevisionFootballConversationFinalsHospitalsDrowningDublinFootball Match Author:Gabriel Byrne
“Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.” WritingDoneEnoughLastsDecisionPlayerStreetsTelevisionDespairLateWake UpActiveEveningSmokeEmailJuneNeedlesDvdsWork Done Author:Cate Marvin
“I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.” ThinkingLooksPersonsStillsRealPlayProblemLastsGamesWhiteTelevisionColorWillingIndustryStandardsWorkersReplaced Author:Jami Floyd
“Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?” WantDoeBookLastsWeekTelevisionTvsNewsRadioCinema Author:Douglas Adams
“People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.” PeopleLastsNightTelevisionJokesLast Night Author:David Ogilvy
“Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen.” NeedsPlaySeemsLastsAbilityHeardTelevisionExpressionComfortableScientistBrilliantInvisibleAcquireIncapableFacialJessicaConjuringWatching TelevisionFacial Expression Author:Joe Queenan
“This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesArtRealFactsShowsLastsHouseChallengesTakenSawsWrittenTelevisionTinyLast YearAnimationAvengers Author:Jeph Loeb
“I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.” HardStoriesBigsWantedLastsNextFansTelevisionTvsScriptsNarrativeHard TimesImpressedLast TimeCenterpieces Author:Taylor Schilling
“I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].” DoneLastsRememberFeltTelevisionConsistentlyLast Time Author:Kate Mulgrew
“As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you're talking about or you're A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we've come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but... I just don't take any of this super seriously. I'm not curing cancer and I'm not a doctor. It's just television. I don't know why some people get so worked up about it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLongStillsUseJobsLastsSportsTalkingMediaTelevisionSmartAdvantageDoctorsCancerGood JobLong WayBeing Smart Author:Michelle Beadle
“There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksDifferentDoneUseHomeLastsMovingNightRoomsBreakTelevisionTablesDifferent WaysConsoleDiningStorageDining Rooms Author:Nate Berkus
“We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.” DoneCharacterShowsBigsLastsFilmActorsFansTelevisionSeasonsProducersExecutivesFilm And TelevisionBasil Author:Nina Tassler
“When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.” PeopleKnowsLittlesLastsNextBitsMinutesTelevisionLittle BitFasterShockEpisodesSchedulesLast Minute Author:Charisma Carpenter
“Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.” LastsMovingWaitingTelevisionSeriesShootingTargetPaceEpisodesRapids Author:Mike Vogel
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsHas BeensShowsJobsLastsLostLeftFeltKnow HowTelevisionYears AgoExtrasRoughHostQuartersIntroducingCompassPatchesPartingTelevision ShowsRough Patches Author:Dayna Devon
“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.” FirstsLastsFormNiceChildhoodTelevisionBrotherPeriodsRadioComicComedianDecentAnarchyLast DayMarx Brothers Author:George Carlin
“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.” LastsRealizingCenturyTelevisionInternetComputerRadioPhysicsLasersMicrowavesTransistors Author:Michio Kaku
“What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.” WorldLittlesLastsCitiesGenerationsHappenedTelevisionLessonsThirdsFactoriesMexicoRefugeeMexicanCablesKoreanThird WorldBourgeoisieDiscoMexico CityChagrinTijuana Author:Richard Rodriguez
“We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.” WorldYearsReasonBigsLastsMemoriesTelevisionWestPopulationDeclineFifteenCoverageFifteen YearsShort Memory Author:Tariq Ali