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"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
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"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
Life

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."
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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Politics

"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."
Nation

"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown."
Ambition

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."
Death
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