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I came, I saw, I conquered.

It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

I don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I cured with the power that came through me.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn’t done or which hadn’t even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement’s chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else – including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven’t.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We’ve talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don’t already want to buy.

I was delighted to have lines when they came – learning lines for film isn’t a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I’ve done quite a few adverts. I’ve also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It’s in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin’ at it.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations – rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn’t comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that’s how the game is played. You’re always grappling.