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"A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades."
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
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"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
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"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."
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"With me, everything's right on the table."
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"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
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"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."
Mortality

"If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
Sociology

"We just had a near-life experience!"
Experience

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
Death

"What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven."
Philosophy

"I don't want to die without any scars."
Courage

"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."
Humor

"Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours."
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"Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."
Parenting
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