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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."

"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."

"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."

"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."

"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."

"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."

"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
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"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year."

"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."

"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals."

"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making."

"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."

"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
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