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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
Explore more quotes by Dick Wolf
"People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time."
"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make."
"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
"I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line."
"The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house."
"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric."
"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
"The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change."
"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."
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