"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
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"I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody."
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"I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game."
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"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"I love theater. I also love radio. I love language."
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"Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over."
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"The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant."
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"No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff."
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"I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks."
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"All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it."
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"If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage"
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"I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio."
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"The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews."
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"I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience."
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"Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do."
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"I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there."
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"Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business."
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"The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired."
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"I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!""
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"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."
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