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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

"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."

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

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

"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."
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"It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade."


"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."


"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"


"I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring."


"I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop."


"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal."
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