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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen."
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"I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post."
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"The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome."
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"I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get."
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"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."
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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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"The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me."
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"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
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"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."
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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
Media
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
Battle
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
Tax
"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."
Vision
"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
Old
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
Communication
"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
Communication
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
Knowledge
"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."
Living
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