"Television ... the new gladiatorial arena."

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Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

Josephine Hart

#Television Quotes #Arena Quotes

“What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.”
“Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.”
“Fate has a twisted sense of humor.”
“Grab whom you must. Do what you want.”
“Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.”
“Iâ€™m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics â€“ the 95% mental and 5% physical. Itâ€™s totally true. As you get to an older age, at 25 years old, Iâ€™ve pretty much learned everything that I need to learn in gymnastics. Now itâ€™s, can I mentally push through the daily grind? Can I push through the small injuries and the aches and pains?”
“I don't like sitting at a keyboard.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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