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“MTV has always been about redefining itself.”

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Martha Quinn, born on May 11, 1959, is a renowned video jockey with a significant influence in the television and music industries. She gained widespread recognition for her unique style and talent as a television personality. more

“With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.”

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“You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story.”

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“I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.”

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“Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.”

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“As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?”

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“As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.”

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“But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.”

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“But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.”

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“Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.”

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