All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Quote by Clive James

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

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As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just...

We look like television in print.

We look like television in print.

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I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...