"I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business."

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Grant Tinker

#Decision Quotes #Research Quotes #Television Quotes

“I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!”
“I Think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power , the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details. (1973”

Source : "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.
“I think it was Mark Twain who said, â€œGet your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.”

Source : Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books
“It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.”
“What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.”
“He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”
“It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.”

Source : "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".
“Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.”

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