Television Quotes by Paddy Chayefsky

8 Television quotes by Paddy Chayefsky

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Chayefsky’s sharp wit lands in eight compact lines about television. This lean collection gives a taste of his critical eye for the medium.

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Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats…

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Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

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Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,…

Paddy Chayefsky

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Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

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Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

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Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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“This story is about Howard Beale, who was the news anchorman on UBS TV. In his time, Howard Beale had been a…

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Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

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It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always…

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It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.…

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I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of…

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“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.…

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“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of…

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Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If…

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Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

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Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers…

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