Quotes About Media

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

The Republican Party is obsessed with what the media thinks of them, obsessed with what the Democrats who are perceived to run that town think of them. And it's paralysis.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

We all felt very passionate about what we wanted to do and how we wanted to be perceived by our fans and by the media.

The bad press started to play a big part in how people perceived me, and I started playing on that too, which was a big mistake.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

With excessive digitisation, now, everyone is making films, which is good, but the makers think that they will quickly make films in digital and bag satellite rights but television channels buy satellite rights of notable films only. If we made fewer films a year, percentage of hits would be better.