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"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
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"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"
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"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
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"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
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"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
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"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."
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"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."
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"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."
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"Trash has given us an appetite for art."
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"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
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"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
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