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Television
«The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.»
«The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.»
«Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.»
Author: Larry Gelbart
(Actor, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Television
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audience, television
«The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt.»
Author: Peter Alfano
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Television
| Keywords:
birdie, birdied, inclined, Movements, putt, realizes, refrigerator, refrigerators, tends, tends to, tournament, tournaments, viewer, viewers, whisper
«The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
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Emotion,
Magic,
Television
| Keywords:
art form, conveys, medium, moods, retain, screen, tackle, tackled, tackles, tackling, the screen
«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
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Television
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after all, a billion, beast, billion, every night, fixedly, freezes, gave, insidious, promised, sang, siren, Sirens, staring, stone, television
«The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Reality,
Television
| Keywords:
automatically, immediate, real world, The News, The Real World, TV news
«The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Television
| Keywords:
cars, supper, tanked, tank car