"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"
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"Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet."
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"My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television."
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"For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television."
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"I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me."
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"I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one."
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"I can't believe that person on the television is really me."
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"Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless."
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"Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue."
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"I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts."
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"We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms."
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"I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows."
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"People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television."
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"I can't stand to see myself on television."
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"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television."
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"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
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"Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs."
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"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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