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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"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."

"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."

"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."

"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


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


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"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."
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