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FRANK YABLANS |
1935- ; president of Paramount Pictures 1971-75 |
| 1 There are two ways to fail in the movie business. One is by poor performance, the other is
by great performance. I think the more threatening of the two is success. |
• source unknown |
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2 You can’t resign those jobs. The power is too great to give up. What you do, what
I did, what all of us do, is create an atmosphere which leads to the final confrontation.
And the relief you feel when it happens is incredible. Being president of a studio means
being everything to everybody and nothing for yourself. Of course, after it’s all
over, you wonder, where do I go from here? |
• cit. David Pirie (ed): Anatomy of the Movies, 1981 |
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Sir BRIAN YOUNG |
1922- ; Director-General, Independent Broadcasting Authority 1970-82 |
| 1 I am afraid that to offer the viewers an adequate choice is to create
division within families; the two things are the same thing. |
• Evidence to Select Committee on Nationalised Industries (Sub-Committee B), 26 January 1972 |
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2 Those inside broadcasting must accept that from the outside we look narrow and
cliquish. |
• Royal Television Society Convention, Cambridge, 1973 |
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