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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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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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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
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"Television is intensely personal."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
Criticism
"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
Man
"Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers."
Friendship
"His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen."
Writing
"Politics in America is the binding secular religion."
Politics
"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
Money
"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
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
Intelligence
"A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill."
Conservative
"When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend."
Friendship
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