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"There was only so much television you could do."
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"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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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."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
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"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."
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"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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"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"But the working I would always want to do."
Want
"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
Artist
"So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things."
Acting
"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
Thought
"In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means."
People
"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."
People
"I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either."
Home
"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
Work
"But I want to do good work, after this series."
Work
"To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended."
Actor
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