Entertainment/Television[英语名人名言]_名人名言

Entertainment/Television[英语名人名言]

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All television is children's television.

-- Richard P. Adler

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

-- Fred Allen

You can take all the sincerity¹ in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

-- Fred Allen

The remarkable² thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

-- T. S. Eliot

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

-- George Gobel

Acting³ is the most minor⁴ of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms⁵. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

-- Alfred Hitchcock

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

-- Ernie Kovacs

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly⁶ in between.

-- David Letterman

In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin⁷ for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain⁸ can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.

-- Herman Mankiewicz

I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

-- Groucho Marx

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

-- Groucho Marx

Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

-- Nick Mirov

...And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable⁹.

-- Garry Trudeau

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

-- Gore Vidal

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1 sincerity
n.真诚，诚意；真实
参考例句：
His sincerity added much more authority to the story.他的真诚更增加了故事的说服力。 He tried hard to satisfy me of his sincerity.他竭力让我了解他的诚意。

2 remarkable
adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的
参考例句：
She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。 These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

3 acting
n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的
参考例句：
Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。 During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 minor
adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修
参考例句：
The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。 I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。

5 antagonisms
对抗，敌对( antagonism的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The fundamental antagonisms in such an arrangement were obvious. 在这样一种安排中，基本矛盾很明显。 The antagonisms between the two empires and systems were mortal. 这两个帝国和两种制度之间，有着不共戴天的仇恨。

6 neatly
adv.整洁地，干净地，灵巧地，熟练地
参考例句：
Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。 The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。

7 virgin
n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的
参考例句：
Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？ There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

8 villain
n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因
参考例句：
He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。 The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。

9 inevitable
adj.不可避免的，必然发生的
参考例句：
Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。 The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

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