Ann Landers Quotes

Television wasn't prestigious.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

TV has changed everything.

At the end of the day, television is an entertainment platform and we are here to entertain the masses.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

It used to be radio was the place that young people gathered to get their information.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.