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Television Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with…
- We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And…
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same…
- Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who…
- I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people…
- Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
- No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need…
- Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
- Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins…
- Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
- Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch.…
- Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
- My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide…
- The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were…
More Television Quotes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a… — Michele Bachmann
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
- The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
- My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana