"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

Frederic Raphael, British Screenwriter

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"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."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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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."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

Robert Adams, American Photographer

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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."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

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"Isn't television glamourous?"

Adam Savage, American Entertainer

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"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."

Johnny Olson, American Entertainer

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"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."

Marcus Allen, American Athlete

Television,

"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."

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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

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"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

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