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I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.