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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
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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."
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."
"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."
"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
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