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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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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."

"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

"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."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back."

"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
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"And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West."

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

"If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland."
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