“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.” ShouldKindEndsGamesJusticeAudienceStageMediaMusicianTheaterMediumsSoccerHockeyOperaPitsTheatricalHybridEither OrPlaying Soccer Author:Christoph Waltz
“Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.” FactsGovernmentPoliticalPracticeStageMediaFinancialDisasterRhetoricObscurePaymentMortgageLendingPolitical Rhetoric Author:Thomas Sowell
“All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all fairly new inventions, and I think we're in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we're just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like after a period of adjustment it will inevitably be a regression from where we are now.” ThinkingFeelsWholeSocialStageMediaPeriodsSmartPhonesSocial MediaInventionObsessedToysAdjustmentRegressionNew InventionsNew Toys Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it's gonna be crazy. It's the Olympics. But it's gonna be fun!” WorldSaidGirlFunSidesClassTeamCrazyAdviceStageMediaInternationalOlympicsCompetingBeing CrazyOther GirlWorld Class Author:Gabby Douglas