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Quotes About Entertainment

The HubSystem that controlled their habitat, that they were dependent on for food, shelter, filtered air, and water, was trying to kill them. And in their corner all they had was Murderbot, who just wanted everyone to shut up and leave it alone so it could watch the entertainment feed all day.
~ Martha Wells
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.
~ Martha Wells
The whole group had been remarkably drama-free so far, which I appreciated. The last few contracts had been like being an involuntary bystander in one of the entertainment feed's multi-partner relationship serials except I'd hated the whole cast.
~ Martha Wells
In the feed, ART started to play the soundtrack to Sanctuary Moon and weirdly, that helped.
~ Martha Wells
Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.
~ Martha Wells
But media would calm me down, and I wanted to stay angry.
~ Martha Wells
SecUnits aren't sentimental about each other. We aren't friends, the way the characters on the serials are, or the way my humans were. We can't trust each other, even if we work together. Even if you don't have clients who decide to entertain themselves by ordering their SecUnits to fight each other.
~ Martha Wells
I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.
~ Martha Wells
For one thing, the shows and serials were trying to communicate accurately with the viewer. As far as I could tell, real humans usually didn't know what the hell they were doing.
~ Martha Wells
I had also been hit by at least four different recognition scans. These scans are usually searching for known humans or augmented humans that the station security is keeping tabs on, not random escaped SecUnits. (Random escaped SecUnits is not nearly as prevalent a problem as the entertainment feed would have you believe.)
~ Martha Wells
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.
~ Martha Wells
I like endless historical family drama serials, but in real life, ghosts are way more annoying.
~ Martha Wells
A forensic sweep might show that I'd been there. If forensic sweeps worked like they did in the entertainment media, which, come to think about it, I had no idea if they did or not. (Note to self: look up real forensic sweeps.)
~ Martha Wells
No, I left, I said, I've decided to live here and just move from hotel to hotel, watching the entertainment feed. Okay, so that did sound like a much better idea than I meant it to.
~ Martha Wells
Okay, maybe I should have been appalled. It was a terrifying idea. It was a terrifyingly attractive idea. I said, "A documentary on the entertainment feed?
~ Martha Wells
Since I hacked my governor module, it's not like I haven't thought about killing the humans. But once I started exploring the company servers and found hundreds of hours of downloadable entertainment media, I just thought, there's no hurry. I can always kill the humans later, after the next series drops.
~ Martha Wells
I liked humans, I liked watching them on the entertainment feed, where they couldn't interact with me.
~ Martha Wells
I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.
~ Martha Wells
I needed help. I was rattled, I was still leaking a little, and I hadn't been able to watch any media in what felt like forever.
~ Martha Wells
Westerners who've never traveled abroad don't realize the extent to which American movies and actors, and Hollywood imagery, dominate overseas cinemas and markets.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Danish kitchen manufacturers often use the term "Conversation Kitchen" to refer to an expensive, well-appointed kitchen that is used less often for cooking than it is as a theatrical backdrop for entertaining guests. I've
~ Martin Lindstrom
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
~ Martin Short
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
~ Martina McBride
books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions
~ Unknown