Guy Cook famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using.
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Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
-- Guy Cook
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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.
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So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
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You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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Isn't television glamourous?
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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
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Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.
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