“I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.” WishTelevisionHatredSellingOur LoveSeducing Author:Dan Harmon
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.” PeopleWritingKindFallFoundEasyDifficultActingDoorsTelevisionCollegeBe GoodSellingCablesSalesmanFall Into PlaceSubscriptionEverything Falls Into Place Author:Greg Kinnear
“So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.” IfsMenWantYearsMeanLongShowsWhiteFourTelevisionHundredSellingNecksEntitledCoatsPillsTelevision ShowsHanging AroundStethoscopeWhite Coat Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.” TryingFirstsShowsProcessTelevisionTomorrowGainsLettersPhonesSellingConsumersConsentPhone CallsTelevision ShowsMarketersInterrupting Author:Seth
“I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.” PeopleHomeHouseTelevisionProgramBlameSellingKitchenBuyingCrazinessBuying A House Author:Barbara Hulanicki