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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press. (Ace Goodman)
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler. (Ace Goodman)
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. (Ace Goodman)
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. (Ace Goodman)
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What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion. (Ace Goodman)
the television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little...
- Ray Bradbury (Ace Goodman)
I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security-prison guys. I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming 'Oh, no!' (Ace Goodman)
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. (Ace Goodman)
It was this really bizarre video idea, this animated Power Ranger-y thing. I said, 'This is not right. If you want me to reach four-year-olds, then OK.' (Ace Goodman)
I like TV. (Ace Goodman)
I like TV. It all depends what it is. (Ace Goodman)
I don't watch much tv. This is the most time I've spent involving a soap. (Ace Goodman)
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. (Ace Goodman)
Most young people think television was around during the cave man days, but that's a "Johnny-Come-Lately," television. (Ace Goodman)
They're willing to suck in all this crap that comes over the television. (Ace Goodman)
When you see these fights on TV you see all these celebrities in the front row, so we thought it'd be funny if we called in some of our friends. (Ace Goodman)
Each one is so different, but the one that really affected me the most was George Washington in the 11-hour TV miniseries. (Ace Goodman)
It's not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It's a continuing process. (Ace Goodman)
I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon. It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here. (Ace Goodman)
I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child. (Ace Goodman)
I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. (Ace Goodman)
Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'. (Ace Goodman)
I prefer British television in one sense because I still feel that the best-written scripts I get are for television. (Ace Goodman)
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. (Ace Goodman)
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. (Ace Goodman)
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