Marshall McLuhan Quotes

One of the many effects of television on radio has been to shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of nervous information system. (p. 298)

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• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

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• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I have a fearless but neutral personality.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

  

  Hannah Ware
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• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
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• I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

  

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• They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

  

  Barry Sheene
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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  

  Kate Morton
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• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
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• Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

  

  Kajol
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• I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Some things in literature are inexplicable.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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• I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

  

  Dorothy Allison
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• For as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

  

  Sarah Fielding
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• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
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• One of the many effects of television on radio has been to shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of nervous information system. (p. 298)

  

  Marshall McLuhan