A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
电视
Television
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
我暗自明白:壁炉的原始魅力。电视——它不可抗拒的魅力——火。
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.
看电视的好处之一就是你和这些角色在一起很多年了，你对他们非常了解。
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
广播扼杀了综艺，电视扼杀了广播，互联网也将扼杀电视，而且还会继续下去。
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
我是一个作家。现在我开始上电视了。我有一张大嘴。他们说，我有很好的看电视的牙齿。
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.
看电视的好处在于，你可以不止一次地了解你所扮演的那个人是谁。
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
电视，虽然在急剧下降，仍然偶尔给没有声音的人声音。
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
我可以做很多糟糕的电视节目，但我基本上坚持要给你带来新闻。
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
我在高中的时候很乱，但我把它收起来，直到我在旧金山做了一个电视节目。
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
我认为报纸应该具有挑衅性，煽动他们，但你不能在电视上那样做。只是没开。
Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.
电视应该放在适当的位置——在我们身边，在我们面前，但绝不应该放在我们和更大的生活之间。
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
我相信，在电视上看到的是我对野生动物的热情和热爱。
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
我在一个糟糕的电视世界里长大，在我爸爸的片场长大，然后作为一个年轻的傻瓜参加相亲节目等等。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
你必须等待别人为你编写程序。唯一的不同是你能接触到的人的数量，但无论如何，在接下来的两三年内，你能接触到的人的数量将会持平。现在买电脑比买电视还快。
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
地方电视台和地方电视新闻并没有告诉选民关于地方候选人的情况。
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
没有全国性的广告。所有的广告都是本地的和个人的。这是一个男人或女人在厨房读报纸或在书房看电视。
On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.
在电视上，每个人都在说话，他们不关心机制。
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.
我不认为你可以根据观众的需求来制作电视节目。你只能编你喜欢的故事，因为你必须看很多遍。
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
我不看电视，我认为它破坏了谈论自己的艺术。