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"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
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"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."
"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."
"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."
"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."
"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."
"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
"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."
"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."
"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."
"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
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"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."
"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
"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."
"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."
"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."
"The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers."
"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."
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