[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

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Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, journalist, comedian, and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962....

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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

He's turned his life around. He used to be miserable and depressed; now he's depressed and miserable.

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Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

—Clive Barnes

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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

—Alfred Hitchcock

Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

—Alfred Hitchcock

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

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