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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
Paddy Chayefsky
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Paddy Chayefsky
Age: 58 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 29
Died: 1981
Died: August 1
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The Bronx
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Sidney Aaron Chayefsky
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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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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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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 you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
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I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
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You're not such a dog as you think you are.
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All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.
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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 things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
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