Tony Wilson
Music Producer, Entrepreneur
"This is Manchester, we do things differently here."
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Television
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
Robert Carlyle
Actor
"I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point."
Terrence Mann
Actor
"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good."
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"I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white."
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"Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy."
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"What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air."
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"There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs."
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"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence."
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"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."
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"People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom."
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"I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them."
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"I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television"
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"The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery."
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"I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet."
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"When I was your age, television was called books."
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"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
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"Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do."
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"I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience."
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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"
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"Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet."
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"My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television."
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"For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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