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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
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"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."

"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."

"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."

"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
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"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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