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"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
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"For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness."

"Every individual can reach their greatest potential with enough encouragement."

"The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be."

"Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility."

"It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential."

"There is definitely more left in you than what those negative thoughts are forcing you to believe. Quitting on yourself should never be an option in your life. Success is your true destiny Keep pushing until something very rewarding happens."
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"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."


"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 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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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