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"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
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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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"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."


"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."


"So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with."


"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."


"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
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