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“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.”

“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.”

Turns Cutting Century Television Tvs Adults Edges Locals Hips Now And Then

Author:Tom Shales

“Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.”

Character Easy Emotion Cutting Television Killing Short Cuts Cathartic

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.”

Mind Children Reading Hours Levels Cutting Television Six Lows Average Currents Fourth Alphas Television Watching

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.”

Children Important Kids School Study Cutting Streets Havens Danger Television Safe Library Temptation Safe Places Numbing

Author:Scott Turow

“One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.”

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Author:Mark Addy

“I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them.”

Thinking Years Long Shows Wanted Cutting Television Hair Six Sick Tired Eight Campaigns Contracts Locks Television Shows Cosmetics Endorsements So Sick Short Hair

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.”

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Author:Patrick J. Adams

“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.”

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Author:Bill Maher