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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."
"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."
"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."
"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."
"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."
"Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity."
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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."
"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."
"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
"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."
"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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