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"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
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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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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
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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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"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
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"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
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"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
"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."
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"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"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 was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
Life
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
People
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
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"I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy."
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