Quotes of: Televised Keyword

Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.

The Constant Gardener

Don't just pull fears out of the thin air. Watch television. Learn what scares the talk show hosts.

Fear for America

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

Freddy and Fredericka

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The Forgotten Garden

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

J. Cole

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Doug Henning

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

Sarah Paulson

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these charact...

Mindy Kaling

I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff.

Robert Taylor

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Christopher Knight

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Jane Seymour

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'

Kevin Bleyer

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The Meaning of Sarkozy

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Neuromancer

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

Life is But a Dream

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

Looking For It

The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

In Place of Fear

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

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