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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Work

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing

"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism

"Self-plagiarism is style."
Self

"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
Public

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
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"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
People

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
Information

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
Home

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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Personal Development

"When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me."
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Personal Development

"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."
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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."
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"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
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"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
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