Media Quotes - Page 39

• I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  Katey Sagal

  Believe, Struggle, Character

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Average

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• The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

  Mark Skousen

  Doe

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• In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Ambition, Buddhism

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• All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Google, Different, Want

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• Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.

  Neil Strauss

  Art, Book, Self Worth

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• You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Hate, Fall

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

  Ron Suskind

  Roles, Truth Is, Historic

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• By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

  Ron Suskind

  Book, Fall, Games

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• I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

  Shepard Smith

  Feels

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• I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

  Shepard Smith

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Iran, Play, Hostage Crisis

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

  David Talbot

  Blessing, Dollars, Literature

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• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

  David Talbot

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Hands

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• If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Effort, Energy

  "Declaring war on the regulatory state" by Fred Upton, www.washingtontimes.com. October 18, 2010.

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• We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

  Emily VanCamp

  Want, Difficult, Navigate

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• Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Communication, School, Technology

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• Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Kids, Tvs, Looks

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• I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

  Gemma Ward

  Taken, Past, Years

  "Gemma Ward opens up about her life with Heath Ledger" by Billy Rule, www.heraldsun.com.au. January 29, 2011.

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• I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Evil, Perception

  "Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults". Interview with Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.

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• For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

  Judy Woodruff

  Past, Years, Organization

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• You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  Reality, Thinking, Inspire

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• If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.

  Mitt Romney

  Sleep, Able, Worried

  "CNN Hypes Dying Newsweek's Liberal Slam of Romney" by Matt Hadro, www.mrc.org.

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