"Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union."

-- Merrill Markoe

#Reality Quotes #Television Quotes #Unions Quotes

“It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.”
“How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?”
“I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!”

Source : "Sponsor Jill Sobule's album, get a spot on it". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2009.
“Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.”
“Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.”
“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.”

Source : Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.10, Anchor
“[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.”

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