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Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt: That's all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.
(Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993), U.S. director, screenwriter. Addison DeWitt (George Sanders), Miss Caswell (Marilyn Monroe), All About Eve, after she flubs her theater auditions (1950).)
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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
(Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. "Spudding Out," The Worst Years of Our Lives (first published 1988, repr. 1991).
Of "couch potatoes.")
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
(Robert Bresson (b. 1907), French film director. "1950-1958: Exercises," Notes on the Cinematographer (1975).)
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
(Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968), U.S. actress. Tallulah, ch. 1 (1952).
At this point, Bankhead had never appeared on television. Later, she would.)
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
(Clive James (b. 1939), Australian writer, critic. Glued to the Box, introduction (1983).)
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Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
(Justin Kaplan (b. 1925), U.S. literary historian, biographer, editor. Quoted in Observer (London, June 9, 1991).
On editing the 1992 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.)
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... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
(Nora Ephron (b. 1941), U.S. author and humorist. Scribble Scrabble, ch. 5 (1978).
Written in 1975 at the end of an essay harshly criticizing CBS-TV for paying H. R. Haldeman, a key figure in the "Watergate" political scandal, to appear on its 60 Minutes news program.)
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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
(Anna Ford (b. 1943), British television personality. quoted in Observer (London, Sept. 23, 1979).)
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
(William Gibson (b. 1948), U.S. science fiction (cyberpunk) writer. Neuromancer, ch. 1, Ace Science Fiction (1984).
Infamous opening sentence of the quintessential "cyberpunk" novel.)
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Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
(Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. Attributed, Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989).)
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