#vision

Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#advertising #news #propaganda #television #tv

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#could #dad #exactly #friends #get

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#looking #radio #really #television #these

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ↗

— Fred Allen

#imitation #sincerest #sincerest form #television

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business. ↗

— Ted Allen

#because #been #best #business #chefs

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#had #i #just #lady #lots

In the twilight, it was a vision of power. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#twilight #vision

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#director #most #primarily #screenplays #vision