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"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
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"I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
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"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"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."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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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."
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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living
"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
People
"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact
"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level."
Poetry
"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
Being
"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."
People
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
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"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
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