He's too kvetchy. He's being irascible. We want a prophet, not a curmudgeon. He should do more apocalyptic doom. I think you should take on a couple of writers to write some jeremiads for him.

— Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway)

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9 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:35:36.451 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Well, you put on a news show and here's somebody who can predict tomorrow's news for you. Her name, aptly enough, is Sibyl. Sibyl the Soothsayer.

- You could give her two minutes of trance at the end of a Howard Beale Show say, once a week, Friday which is suggestively occult, and she could oraculate. Then next week everyone tunes in to see how good her predictions were.

- Maybe she could do the weather.

- Your Network News show is going to need some help, Max, if it's gonna hold.

- Beale doesn't do the angry-man thing well at all.

- He's too kvetchy. He's being irascible. We want a prophet, not a curmudgeon. He should do more apocalyptic doom. I think you should take on a couple of writers to write some jeremiads for him.

- I see you don't fancy my suggestions.

- Hell, you're not serious, are you?

- Oh, I'm serious.

- The fact is I could make your Beale Show the highest-rated news show in television, if you'd let me have a crack at it.

- What do you mean, have a crack at it?

- I'd like to program it for you. Develop it.

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