"Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous."

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

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"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Media, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."

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"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."

Life

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."

Friendship

"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."

Trust

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."

Love

"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."

People

"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."

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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."

"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."

"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."

"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."

"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."

"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."

"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."