“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.” PeopleChildrenParentClassRichMiddleNew YorkTelevisionGrewGrew UpRaisedEntertainmentMiddle ClassRich PeopleOnly Child Author:Billy Eichner
“I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.” FilmClassMiddleTelevisionIndustryIndiaEverydayCinemaMiddle ClassHallsFilm IndustryMiddle Class Family Author:Lavrenti Lopes
“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.” RealHardPlayCharacterFilmGamesClassWatchesMorningMiddleTelevisionBallsReal LifeRestaurantsMiddle ClassLunchCompetentPractiseBall GamesClarinetMiddle Class Life Author:Woody Allen
“It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.” PeopleThinkingIdeasSoulShowsWould BeInterestingClassWonderfulTalentTelevisionBuildingEntrepreneurSeriesDepthRangePerformersVery InterestingIconsProgrammesInteresting Ideas Author:Charlie Rose
“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.” FirstsSaidSoundEffortMistakeClassTelevisionCollegeAccentsAnchorsInstructorsFreshman Author:Charles M. Blow
“I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.” IfsChildrenPlayClassTelevisionKingsDramaSeriesBetrayalChiefsVillagePlaywrightTreasonHeadmastersTelevision Drama Author:Sefi Atta
“What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.” PeopleRealityTodaySufferingCommunityPoorClassGoneAirDyingMediaMilitaryTelevisionCollegeDrugDoctorsRateIraqWorking ClassPrescriptionsFilthyPrescription DrugsAsthmaPeople Dying Author:Bernie Sanders
“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.” LyingDiesPowerfulClassDemocracyInformationTelevisionSourceReaderInternetCitizensNewsBlindLeavingEntertainmentAccessTraditionalDumbJournalistCorporationsRetreatDeafRuthlessIdeologicalGhettoTrustworthyFusion Author:Chris Hedges
“The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.” FeelsYearsKindEndsGrowsClassStudentsTelevisionSafeDryClassroomBroadwayDrains Author:Patricia Mauceri
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan