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Media Quotes
"With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys."
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"I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible."
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"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
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"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
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"Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals."
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"We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV."
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"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
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"Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media."
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"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
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"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
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"I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly."
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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."
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"Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"Not like that, I said."No," he agreed. "Not like that."
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"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
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"None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen."
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"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
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"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."
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"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
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"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
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"The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress."
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"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
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"I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months."
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"Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information."
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"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
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"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"
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"Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh."
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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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