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"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor."
Acting
"I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting."
Letters
"We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records."
First
"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."
Bible
"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
Movies
"As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor."
Past
"Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience."
Music
"We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication."
Dedication
"Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit."
Music
"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."
Success
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