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"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
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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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"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies."
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