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“For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.”

Games Stuff Watches Player Television Football Beats Tubes Just Live

Author:Jermain Defoe

“I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.”

Bigs Faces Life Is Stars Talking Our Lives Happened Fans Television Miracle Tragedy Cameras Tables Green Screens Heat Internals Location Tubes Inventiveness Live Television

Author:William Shatner

“Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.”

World Hands Television Tvs Blame Abstract Entity Tubes Nonsensical

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege”

Long Individual Television Threat Privilege Formal Tubes

Book:Deterring Democracy

Source: Deterring Democracy

“TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.”

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.”

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Book:The Petting Zoo: A Novel

Source: The Petting Zoo: A Novel

“Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.”

Real Modern Television Voters Tubes Modern Society Staples

Author:Ed Rollins

“'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.”

Firsts Gone Television First Time Tubes Asylums

Author:Jools Holland