#television

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

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 have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#clearly #customers #definitely #during #fine

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #medium #people #seriously #television

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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I can't stand to see myself on television. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#myself #see #stand #television

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#director #film #i #i think #medium