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I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

— Christopher Fowler

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

— Daniel Clowes

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

— E. L. James

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

— Brian Blessed

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

— Robert Webb

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

— Kevin Bacon

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

— Robert Redford

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

— Larry the Cable Guy

When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

— Neil Jackson

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

— Louis Theroux