COLLECTION OF
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. - David Brinkley We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. - Barbara Ehrenreich I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. - Stephen Fry, Paperweight Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. - Camille Paglia, in "Harper's Magazine" Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable. - Shimon Peres Radio and television . . . have succeeded in lifting the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. - Nathalie Sarraute, in the London "Times Literary Supplement" Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. - C.P. Scott, in the "Manchester Guardian" Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. - Eric Sevareid Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. - Gore Vidal I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. - Alice Walker Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. - Terry Wogan, in the London "Observer" Television is chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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