Cables Quotes - Page 13

• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

  James Frain

  Character, Space, Focus

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• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• ... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Availability, Style, Popcorn

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• Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fitness, Disco Music, Cable Tv

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• It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.

  Chris Hayes

  Political, Narrative, Tvs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

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• India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

  Arundhati Roy

  Night, Light, Digital Revolution

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

  Christine Vachon

  Jobs, Magazines, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, People, Contentment

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• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Suits You, Blue, Rubber

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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Basketball, Stars, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

  Erin Cummings

  Cutting, Phones, Cells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Airplane, Innovation

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• I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

  William H. Gass

  Voice, Wire, Connections

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.191, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Creativity, Government, Machines

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• My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fun, Trying, Watches

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

  Robin Williams

  People, Choices, Pay

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

  Judd Apatow

  Successful, Funny Things, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Imagine if you have a million views on a show and they say it's a hit on some cable networks. I could put out a piece of content that has 20 million views.

  Russell Simmons

  Views, Pieces, Imagine

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• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

  Hugh Hefner

  Television, Internet, Boundaries

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

  Robert Englund

  Horror Stories, Rooms, American Horror Story

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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