Television Quotes - Page 29

• Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.

  Tyler Cowen

  Technology, Space, Age

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• When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?

  Leonard Shlain

  Reading, Book, Meditation

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• Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

  Chris Hayes

  Sadness, Successful, Emotional

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• I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  Amanda Schull

  Growing Up, Secret, Musical

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• I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Pushing Boundaries, Mediums

  "Between Mystique and Failure" by Suzanne Fields, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  Jack Germond

  Way, Wells, Ifs

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• Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

  Jack Germond

  Daughter, College, Thinking

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• I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

  Kurt Sutter

  Kids, Essentials, Kind

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• Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule

  Jason Marsden

  Actors, Schedules, Bigs

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• When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Book, Eye, Loss

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Hair, Ideas

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Jail

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• Television leaves no external scars.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Scar

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

  Joe Queenan

  Dancing, Republican, Exciting

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• If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

  Anna Quindlen

  Intelligent, Cheese Sandwiches, Views

  "Frankincense In Aisle Five!". www.newsweek.com. December 25, 2005.

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• I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

  Roseanne Barr

  Writing, Easier, Teach

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• Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?

  Donald A. Norman

  Book, Trying, Use

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Tv Shows, Keys, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Film And Television, Storytelling

  The L Word Finale Special, March 08, 2009.

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• I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.

  Jennifer Beals

  Girl, Gay, Night

  Speech at L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Women's Night, April 17, 2004.

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Anxiety, Marketing, News

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Radio

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• Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Facts, Tone

  2002 On the Jo Whiley show, BBC Radio 1, 30 Sep.

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• The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

  Andy Warhol

  People, One Day, President

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Soul, Metrics

  "No News is Good News". Interview with Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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