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Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV. David Foster Wallace
He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He’s a modern citizen for whom society doesn’t exist. Peter Shaffer
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've... Chuck Palahniuk
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet Bill Watterson
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. Dee Dee Myers
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior. Tim Murphy
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. Rupert Murdoch
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch quote: "I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but..."
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. Rupert Murdoch
Bill Mumy quote: "Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The..."
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series. Bill Mumy
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries? Bill Mumy
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project. Bill Mumy
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. Bill Mumy
I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records. Martin Mull

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