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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.


Leonardo Sciascia


#film #films #grew #i #involved

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.


Ruby Wax


#employ #fat #i #myself #never

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason--telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.


Dave Hickey


#unemployment #art

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.


Nick Cave


#nick-cave #spin-magazine #television #music

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.


Neil Postman


#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.


Lewis Nordan


#television #age

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.


Gates McFadden


#exposed #fast #information #life #makes

The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.


Noam Chomsky


#beauty

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.


Edward R. Murrow


#media #news #show-business #television #business

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?


Adolph Zukor


#because #here #instrument #lose #our






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