When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
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One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.
We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
I've raised my daughter with no television.
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