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"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."
"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
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