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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
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