#levis

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cheats #day #each #eat #few

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#being #between #book #child #conceiving

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time. ↗

— Mako

#draw #entertainment #form #games #happy

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#face #fall #good #i #important

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comedians #create #created #demand #easy

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television? ↗

— Jason Marsden

#get #lot #television #want #watching

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world. ↗

— Marta

#football #leagues #majority #reason #still

Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#basically #because #campaign #going #largest

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#both #ever #greatest #journalism #like

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#behalf #consent #direct #direct result #government