A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
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America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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