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Television Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
- Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the…
- We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
- Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
- Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather…
- If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By…
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