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"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
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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."

"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."

"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."

"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."

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

"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."

"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."

"I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other."

"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."

"I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go."

"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through."

"I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal."

"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story."
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