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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ↗

— Les Brown

#bait #business #commerce #communications #day-to-day

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#entertainment #married #moral #passion #propaganda

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#come #consumed #era #hate #i

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#challenge #enjoying #house #i #interest

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#always #before #cable #called #did

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#books #caves #characters #i #i do

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#different #film #game #grateful #i

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television. ↗

— Dan Butler

#man #play #straight #straight man #television

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. ↗

— David Byrne

#different #pistols #ramones #really #sex