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Roger and I are now in our 20th year and I think people tune in because they know that for better or for worse, these are our opinions. Gene Siskel
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Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
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Laws are changed all the time, but the legislature primarily makes the law.
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Listening to Harry when he was at his best was like watching the game with your funny uncle, the one who used to play Double-A ball. Richard Roeper
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Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.
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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch
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Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television. Roger Ebert
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I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne. Chuck Klosterman
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One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
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One side, profits go up, they own more and more, but the diversity, interest, creativity and quality of the programming goes way down.
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One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself seek to substitute the doctrine of the right man for the doctrine of the rights of man. Irving Babbitt
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One of our federal judges said, not long ago, that what the American people need is ten per cent of thought and ninety per cent of action.
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. Alfred Kazin
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My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carver's Gazebo: 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon, she tries to jump out the window. I go, Holly, this can't continue.'
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So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.
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After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
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We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
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It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
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In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
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I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
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It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.
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I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Daniel Barenboim
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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Lionel Trilling
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What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along. Leslie Fiedler
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Writers always know whether you like them or not.
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Pauline Kael
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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.
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The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
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You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. Vincent Canby