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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."

"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."

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."

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

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

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

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."

"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?"

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received."

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."

"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"
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