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"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

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

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
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"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."

"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."

"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."
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