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I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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Economy
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