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Media Influence Quotes
Celebrity CultureMedia InfluencePrivacyPublic IntrusionSociety The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
DistractionMedia InfluenceMental HealthSocietyTechnology People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.
IdentityMedia InfluenceSelf-PerceptionStereotypes I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.
Celebrity LifestyleMedia InfluencePersonal PreferencesPublic PerceptionRelationships Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
Art And CreativityFilm IndustryMedia InfluencePerception and RealityWork Environment Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere.
ActivismGlobal MovementsGratitudeMedia Influence Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.
HappinessLife ChoicesMedia InfluencePersonal Values I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
Celebrity CultureCultural ImpactEntertainment IndustryMedia InfluencePublic Perception The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
Celebrity CultureCultural PressureMedia InfluenceSelf-PerceptionYouth and Society Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Audience EngagementCommunicationMedia InfluencePerceptionVisual Literacy But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
AddictionCommunicationCultureMedia InfluenceSociety This dark diction has become America's addiction.
AuthenticityMedia InfluencePerception Of RealitySelf-Image Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
Exploration and InnovationGlobal PerspectiveMedia and JournalismMedia InfluenceStorytelling and Impact I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.
CommunicationMedia InfluencePropagandaPublic OpinionWar and Politics One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Media InfluenceNational PrideOptimismPatriotismRecognition of Achievements Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Celebrity LifeIdentityMedia InfluencePrivacy ChallengesPublic Recognition I don't think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it's part of who I am now.
Critical ThinkingIndustry CritiqueMedia InfluencePerceptionUnderstanding Complexity While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.
Media InfluencePerceptionPolitical PowerReligious Influence I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Cinematic RepresentationCity IdentityCultural PerceptionMedia InfluenceUrban Development The beauty of Toronto is that it has not been shot a lot in movies, for itself at least. I mean, most of the time, Toronto is shot to portray something else.
Body ImageMedia InfluencePublic ScrutinySelf-PerceptionSociety's Standards When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.
Childhood MemoriesCollectingMedia InfluenceNostalgiaPop Culture When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.
CommunicationConnectivityMedia InfluenceReachTechnology That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
CounterterrorismMedia InfluenceSecurity Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Cultural ChangeDigital AgeEphemeralityMedia InfluenceMusic Industry With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
AnonymityCelebrity CultureDiscretionMedia InfluencePrivacy You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.
Freedom of SpeechGovernment censorshipMedia InfluencePolitical critiqueSocial Justice We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.