My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena Queen of the Jungle.'
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five I was awake with him all night long watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
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.
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then again television at its best is magnificent.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back but always extremely interested in how things work.