#rating

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#celebrating #celebrity #entertainment #feels #film

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#corporation #electric #general #giant #great

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#comes #demand #ratings #sex #trafficking

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#by the time #copyright #could #domain #effectively

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#bra #completely #dress #even #feel

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon. ↗

— Mark Millar

#been #bringing #couple #creatively #done

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. ↗

— Donald Judd

#get #right #very #well #you

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#athlete #becoming #clear #depression #feel

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #darwinian #difficult #evolution #imagine