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"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
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"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
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"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
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"Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity."
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"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."
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"As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can."
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"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
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"Popularity does not happen overnight with a blink of an eye. It takes time, effort and creative knowledge to reach that particular goal in life."
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"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."
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"I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much."
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"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."
Business
"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."
Age
"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."
Care
"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
Change
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
Opera
"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."
People
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
Work
"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
Potential
"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."
Business
"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
Architecture
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