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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
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"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier."
Night
"I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories."
Now
"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."
Money
"There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign."
War
"I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it."
Politics
"When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella."
Writing
"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
Television
"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
Criticism
"The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie."
Time
"When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend."
Friendship
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