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The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. -- P. D. James
All you see on television are debased images. -- Prince
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. -- Kurt Loder
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. -- S. I. Hayakawa
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. -- Antonio Tabucchi
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. -- Mohsin Hamid
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. -- Dick Cavett
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens. -- Samantha Bond
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. -- Annette Funicello
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. -- Eric McCormack
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
I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche. -- Louis Jourdan
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. -- Atom Egoyan
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation. -- Oscar Robertson
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was. -- Bruce Jackson
People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece. -- Robert Winston
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too. -- Patti Smith
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. -- Ann Richards
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. -- Augusten Burroughs
We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images. -- Dan Gilroy
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image. -- Brian Greene
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. -- William Gibson
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps. -- Ice Cube

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