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"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
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"A potential is a hidden greatness. It is the success to be realized. It is an accomplishment yet to be uncovered."
"All you have already done, achieved and opened it is not a potential."
"Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works."
"Every individual can reach their greatest potential with enough encouragement."
"Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential."
"If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow."
"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."
"Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
"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."
"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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