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Ruben Blades

"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."

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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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"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."

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"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."

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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

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"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."

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"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."

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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."

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