Academy Television Award

Famous quotes containing the words academy, television and/or award:

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)