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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."
"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper."
"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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