Quotes About Impact

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.

I was hanging out with some of my friends who are on television shows, and when we went to get lunch, people came up to me and not them. It was this really weird moment where you're realizing that the digital world is getting so big, and it's colliding with everything else.

I loved Garry Marshall. The television shows he created in the '80s were the most deeply important entertainment of my childhood.

I've got people telling me their lives have been changed in a small way because of something I did, that's crazy. That's all that matters.

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

I get loads of messages from people telling me they've been helped through some bad relationship when they've listened to my song. That's what I want to do.

I don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

The fact that more than 50 percent of Americans have an immediate family member either currently or formerly incarcerated tells you a lot about just how defining a feature of American culture incarceration has become.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.