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

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."

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

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

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

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."

"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later."

"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."

"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television."

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."

"A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders."

"We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it."

"The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place."

"The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties."
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