Reality Television Quotes - Page 2

• I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening.

  Idara Victor

  New York, Reality, Television

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• Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Media, Television

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• There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

  Lorna Luft

  Reality, Television, Want

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

  Sarah Ellison

  Stars, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

  Chelsea Handler

  Reality, Thinking, Television

  Source: variety.com

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• We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.

  Van Jones

  Wall, Reality, Climbing

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• What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reality, People, Giving

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Real, Celebrity Gossip

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• If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.

  Sarah Posner

  Religious, Party, Reality

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• As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

  John Sentamu

  Brother, Reality, Events

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• I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Kids, Character

  Source: movieweb.com

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• 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, Television, Unions

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

  Pamela Anderson

  Reality, Television, Pay

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• I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

  Scarlett Johansson

  Stars, Thinking, Reality

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• You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

  Martti Ahtisaari

  Nice, Party, Reality

  "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

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• In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

  Ken Stott

  Reality, Television, Thrown

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• Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Reality, Race, Political

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• I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

  Tony Todd

  Reality, Thinking, Television

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• I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

  Garry Shandling

  Real, Thinking, Special People

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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• If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

  B. J. Novak

  Basketball, Reality, People

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage

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• Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

  Brian May

  Kings, Mean, Boys

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• I think reality television is such a special talent.

  Margaret Cho

  Reality, Thinking, Special

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• I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

  William Gibson

  Brother, Book, Reality

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• Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.

  John Landgraf

  Stars, Real, Winning

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